FPA Book Talk: Cobalt Red with Siddharth Kara

Please join the Foreign Policy Association for a talk with author Siddharth Kara on his new book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives, a New York Times Bestseller that covers the human rights crisis behind the cobalt mining operations in the Congo.  There will be a reception following the lecture. Copies of Cobalt Red will be made available after the event. 

Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world’s supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo―because we are all implicated.

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