Our first Curation of 2025!🌞
Catch up reading
Amandine’s edits
‘We Miners Die A Lot.’ Appalling Conditions And Poverty Wages: The Lives Of Cobalt Miners In The DRC, by Roy Maconachie
Starting 2025 strong with an in-depth story about the extraction and business of cobalt mining in the context of the artisanal mine of Kamilombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 11 000 men and women are working on this “small-scale” site amongst the 100 million artisanal miners globally, in atrocious conditions. Roy Maconachie’s piece describes how the neo- and corporate colonialism and poor economic structure of mining create human exploitation and plague local communities and landscapes. An essential read to reconsider the relevance of electric cars, the main drivers of cobalt demand worldwide.
We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away from Reality, by Marianne Cooper & Maxim Voronov
I found this article in Alicia Kennedy’s newsletter, shared a few months ago. I have been reflecting a lot on how people are living in total denial of the poly-crisis, and so Cooper and Voronov’s piece explores, through the lens of COVID, why individuals prefer to live in complacency and how to get out of this state and get into action.