World Cup Stadium and the “Green” Movement support tapping into a disposable, cheap workforce. – Watts Up With That?

Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for Heartland, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Harnessing Clean Energy.

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar kicks off on Sunday, November 20 at Al Bayt Stadium, but the “acceptable” fee for a cheap disposable workforce will be levied on spectators and those involved. participants many nagging questions about our moral and ethical beliefs as a result of the dire consequences of the pandemic more than 6,500 migrant workers died between 2011 and 2020, many while helping build infrastructure for the World Cup including seven new stadiums. The low cost of stadium construction reflects even lower labor costs in Qatar.

Many of us had a chance to see the 2006 film.”blood Diamond” starring Leonardo DiCaprio depicts many of the same atrocities that happened in Qatar to build seven new stadiums for the 2022 World Cup and continue to happen today in developing nations. mining “Blood Minerals” i.e. exotic minerals and metals to support the “green” movement in rich nations.

Wealthy nations continue to quietly support the same exploitation of yellow, brown, and black people by subsidizing subsidies to buy electric vehicles and build more wind and solar power as payments rise. such subsidies are providing financial incentives for developing countries to exploit “green” materials that promote further exploitation of the poor in developing countries and environmental degradation of landscapes in those countries.” other”

Even President Biden recently expressed a shift towards child labor when The Biden administration announced on October 4, 2022 that batteries from China could be contaminated by child laborA move that could boost the electric vehicle industry while also providing fresh ammunition to critics of the White House’s climate policy.

The Department of Labor says it will add lithium-ion batteries to goods list made of material known as produced by child or forced labor under the 2006 human-trafficking law. The decision is based on a variety of batteries that use cobalt, a mineral mined primarily in the Democratic Republic of 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.

Biden’s 2022 statement comes a year after the book “Harnessing clean energy – Helping people understand environmental abuses and humanity supporting clean energy Nominated for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize.

The book does a great job of discussing the lack of transparency to the world about the impact of the green movement on human mining in developing countries that are mining exotic minerals and metals. needed to create the batteries needed to store “green energy”. In these developing countries, these mining operations exploit child labor and are responsible for the most serious human rights violations against vulnerable ethnic minorities. These activities are also directly destroying the planet through environmental degradation.

Regardless of our plan to meet our recreational sporting values ​​and our efforts to address climate challenges, it is best for us not to forget that we have a moral responsibility. and ethics to further address the material needs of the eight billion people present on this planet.

Ronald Stein, Sports

Energy & Infrastructure Ambassador

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