What does absolutely everyone who owns a smartphone or an electric car need to know?
每个拥有智能手机或电动汽车的人都需要知道什么？
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.
他必须知道，手机电池和电动汽车电池都含有钴。
大约 55% 的钴来自刚果，刚果是世界上最贫穷的国家之一。 苹果的钴完全来自刚果。
在那里工作的人受到极大的剥削，过着恐怖的生活。
据估计，大约有 40,000 名儿童在这些矿山工作。
多尔森 8 岁，他每天在矿井工作 12 小时。
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.
尽管时间很长，但他没有鞋子，也几乎没有食物。
如果他不快点工作，他旁边的人会用殴打威胁他。
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.
这里的每个人的工作条件都很糟糕。
在这个为 Apple 供应钴的钴矿中，儿童和成人在倾盆大雨中、脚踝深的泥浆中工作。
It is a terrible job. Children sift the mined rock with their bare hands.
这是一项可怕的工作,孩子们徒手筛选开采的岩石。
They select the stones with the highest cobalt content and sort them into bags.
他们选择钴含量最高的石头，然后将它们分拣成袋子。
The wastewater from the mines poisons the drinking water in the area.
矿山废水污染了该地区的饮用水。