So much for that euphemism of clean, renewable energy and electric vehicles!
I demand reparations for these miners! (Caution: irony)
"... As demand for electric vehicles has soared in recent years, automakers have rapidly turned to manganese, a common and relatively inexpensive mineral that is already used in about half of rechargeable batteries and is seen as key to making supply chains more reliable and cars more affordable. The industry’s demand for manganese has quintupled over the past five years, and analysts predict it could increase a further ninefold by 2030. ...
In Hotazel, a town [in South Africa] surrounded by giant mines filled with dark gray manganese ore, neurologist Brad Racette examined 187 manganese miners, whose average age was 42. Racette, chair of neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, found that a quarter of these miners experienced Parkinsonian symptoms ..."
In Hotazel, a town [in South Africa] surrounded by giant mines filled with dark gray manganese ore, neurologist Brad Racette examined 187 manganese miners, whose average age was 42. Racette, chair of neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, found that a quarter of these miners experienced Parkinsonian symptoms ..."
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