处于世界电动汽车发展中心的 "Creuseurs"（"挖掘者"）正处于危险之中。

IF 1.8 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-07 DOI:10.1177/10482911241228881

Fabrice Warneck

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电子观察》来到刚果民主共和国南部卢阿拉巴省的科卢韦齐。这里并存着两个世界，却从未有过交集。一个是拥有巨大机器的工业矿山世界。另一方面，数以万计的 "挖掘者 "生活在小规模的手工采矿中，他们拿着简单的撬棍，在极其危险的条件下开采矿脉。仅刚果（金）就拥有世界上 80% 的钴库存，这些钴用于生产满足电动汽车需求的电池，而其中不少于 30% 的库存是以手工方式开采的。刚果有一百万到两百万人直接或间接地依赖于这种生产，而世界需求却在蓬勃发展。

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The "Creuseurs" ("Diggers"), at the Center of the World's Push for EVs, are in Peril: Part One-The Precarious Reality of Artisanal Mines.

Electronics Watch travelled to Kolwezi in the province of Lualaba, in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Two worlds live side by side here, without ever crossing paths. On the one hand, the world of industrial mines, with their huge machines. On the other, the tens of thousands of "diggers" in small-scale artisanal mines, armed with a simple crowbar to exploit a mineral vein, in extremely dangerous conditions. The DRC alone has 80% of the world's cobalt stocks needed to manufacture batteries to serve the demand for electric vehicles, and no less than 30% of this stock is mined in an artisanal way. One to two million Congolese people depend on this production directly or indirectly, while world demand is booming.

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New Solutions-A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： New Solutions delivers authoritative responses to perplexing problems, with a worker’s voice, an activist’s commitment, a scientist’s approach, and a policy-maker’s experience. New Solutions explores the growing, changing common ground at the intersection of health, work, and the environment. The Journal makes plain how the issues in each area are interrelated and sets forth progressive, thoughtfully crafted public policy choices. It seeks a conversation on the issues between the grassroots labor and environmental activists and the professionals and researchers involved in charting society’s way forward with the understanding that lack of scientific knowledge is no excuse for doing nothing and that inaction is itself a choice.