The solution is simple, don't buy products with cobalt. LFP batteries for example have no cobalt.
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Yes, but please stop trolling the conversation away from the topic by attacking people with innuendo. It's particularly low.
I started working jobs while in elementary school. Used to be people thought work was good for kids. Slave-labor is obviously bad, not giving adults jobs so kids are forced to work for less pay is bad, dangerous conditions are certainly bad, global warming and destroying their futures is certainly bad. But if it's sitting on your ass in the afternoon after school versus being able to make some money to help feed your baby sister, I know I wouldn't want some dumb-ass Karen in a foreign country telling me what I can and cannot do.