What does absolutely everyone who owns a smartphone or an electric car need to know?
每個擁有智能手機或電動汽車的人都需要知道什麼？
He must know that cell phone batteries and batteries for electric cars contain cobalt.
Cobalt comes to about 55% from the Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world. The cobalt for Apple comes entirely from the Congo.
The people who work there are extremely exploited and live a horror life.
And it is estimated that about 40,000 children work in these mines.
Dorson is eight years old and he works 12 hours a day in the mine.
他必須知道，手機電池和電動汽車電池都含有钴。
大約 55% 的钴來自剛果，剛果是世界上最貧窮的國家之一。 蘋果的钴完全來自剛果。
在那裡工作的人受到極大的剝削，過着恐怖的生活。
據估計，大約有 40,000 名兒童在這些礦山工作。
多爾森 8 歲，他每天在礦井工作 12 小時。
Despite the long hour, he has no shoes and hardly any food.
The man next to him threatens him with beatings if he does not work faster.
盡管時間很長，但他沒有鞋子，也幾乎沒有食物。
如果他不快點工作，他旁邊的人會用毆打威脅他。
Everyone here has terrible working conditions.
Children and adults work in the pouring rain, in ankle-deep mud, in this cobalt mine that supplies cobalt for Apple.
這裡的每個人的工作條件都很糟糕。
在這個為 Apple 供應钴的钴礦中，兒童和成人在傾盆大雨中、腳踝深的泥漿中工作。
It is a terrible job. Children sift the mined rock with their bare hands.
這是一項可怕的工作,孩子們徒手篩選開采的岩石。
They select the stones with the highest cobalt content and sort them into bags.
他們選擇钴含量最高的石頭，然後将它們分揀成袋子。
The wastewater from the mines poisons the drinking water in the area.
礦山廢水污染了該地區的飲用水。