Sustainability Paradox: Cobalt Mining in the Congo

A story of the rise of electric vehicles and their promise to make a more sustainable planet. Yet this promise has proven to be detrimental to the quality of life for the people in the Congo. Sustainability Paradox pulls back the curtain on the realities of the electric car industry, and the promising solutions that might offer real, meaningful change. Produced by Sydney Davis and Jana Gomri with support from Laura Joyce Davis and the Stories to Save Our Planet class, a part of the Stanford Storytelling Project. Asu Kulu - Undergraduate Congolese Student at Stanford, Anonymous Congolese Miners via Friends of the Congo Links to an external site. Link to References Links to an external site. All music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Sustainability Paradox: Cobalt Mining in the Congo is an episode from Soundings by Soundings from Stanford.

This episode is 19:45 long.

This episode was published on Jun 13, 2024.

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