Smartphones And Computers: "Bloodstains At Our Fingertips"
Image credit Mark Craemer That is the headline of a powerful article in the Globe and Mail where they write that there is 25 Trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral wealth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Seven million people have died in the fight to control that wealth over the last twelve years. We all contribute to the tragedy every time we buy an electronic product: they contain tantalum that comes from the mineral Coltan (shor… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Smartphones And Computers: "Bloodstains At Our Fingertips"
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