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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives
Author: Siddharth Kara
Publisher: St Martin’s Press (Pan Macmillan)
Pages: 274
Price: Rs 599
When you use your smartphone, turn on your laptop or congratulate yourself on your wokeness for owning an electric vehicle, you are unlikely to be thinking of cobalt, a mineral critical to these gadgets. Siddharth Kara’s book Cobalt Red does more than remind you of this fact. He uncovers in unsparingly uncomfortable detail the gross human and environmental degradation at the bottom of a supply chain that powers the world economy. In another age, this system was known as
