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Re:Electric Cars and Batteries: How Will the World Produce E... by api on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:55AM (#28275748)
Not sure about cobalt and nickel, but child labor is a problem for all kinds of resources and not just those that go into batteries. This is a political problem not a technical problem.
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Re:Electric Cars and Batteries: How Will the World Produce E... by BugsJustFindMe on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#28275936)
> This is a political problem not a technical problem.

I don't think the article suggests otherwise. Political problems are part of the "how" of production.

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