By Paul Homewood
From The Washington Times:
Wealth, which has no moral or ethical standards for those of lower means, can be dangerous and fatal to the cheap labor of a disposable workforce.
We’ve already seen the impacts on the disposable workforce as Qatar “needs” to build seven stadiums in a decade to be ready for the 2022 World Cup. The World Cup in Qatar kicks off on November 20. at Al Bayt Stadium, but the “acceptable” figure of more than 6,500 migrant workers who died between 2011 and 2020, helped build the infrastructure for the World Cup with a cheap workforce. , disposable, will provide viewers and participants with many lingering questions about our moral and ethical beliefs as a result of grim consequences.
Decades ago, it was the exploitative factories of the textile industry that attracted the world’s humanitarian attention. Today, it is the green movement, dominated by poorer developing countries mining exotic minerals and metals that support rich countries developing green at great cost to humanity.
Rich countries understand that developing countries have virtually no environmental or labor laws, which allows those locations unlimited opportunities to exploit yellow, brown and black people and cause environmental degradation to their landscape.
Showing no moral or ethical concerns for a disposable workforce, wealthy nations continue to incentivize subsidies to buy electric vehicles and build more wind energy infrastructure and Sun. Those subsidies are providing financial incentives to developing countries that exploit those green materials to further exploit the poor and degrade their landscapes.
The 2021 Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Taking Clean Energy” shows a lack of transparency about the impact of the green movement on humanity. Mining taking place in the developing world is extracting exotic minerals and metals needed to create the batteries needed to store “green energy”. In these developing countries, mining operations exploit child labor and are responsible for serious human rights abuses against vulnerable ethnic minorities. These activities are also directly destroying the planet through environmental degradation.
Last month, President Biden validated the book’s message when his administration claimed that batteries from China could be contaminated with child labor, a move that could upset the electric vehicle industry. while also giving new ammunition to critics of the White House’s bizarre climate policies.
The Labor Department said it would add lithium-ion batteries to its list of goods made with materials known to be produced with child or forced labor under the 2006 human trafficking law. on many batteries use cobalt, a mineral mined primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children have been found working at several mining sites. The department published the list in the form of a report criticizing the “clean energy” supply chain for its use of forced labor. It grouped Chinese batteries along with polysilicon – a key material used in solar panels – made in China’s Xinjiang province.
Whatever our plan to meet our recreational sports values and “green” environmental policies, our political leaders are best not to forget that they have a moral and moral responsibility to continues to address the quality of life needs of the 8 billion people on this planet today.
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