Electrical Cars - The Solution to World Climate, But Under Which Conditions
The world is changing quickly, and what looked like a science fiction fantasy is gradually becoming our current reality. One breakthrough there have become a part of our reality is electric cars, the electrical car is said to be cleaner better and more effective substitute to cars driven by conventional fossil fuel. The Numbers of electrical vehicles on world roads is rising fast, and latest figures shows there are more than 3 million and sales are growing at close 75% a year. But just because it is said that electric vehicles are better for the environment, does that mean it is better for the society? Is it a reasonable choice to switch gasoline-fuel vehicles out with electrical vehicles?
Even though electric cars sound fantastic and green, but what price does it have. Amnesty International says; “human rights abuses, including the use of child labor, in the extraction of minerals, like cobalt, is used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles.” This kind of dilemma creates ethic problematic situations. Situations where buyer must think about dilemmas as if a greener world should be prioritized over human rights or the other way around. Also, in another way this means, because of the increased production of ethical vehicles, that a much larger amount of people will experience human rights abuses and a greater amount of people will become sick because of the working conditions in the cobalt mines, in DR Congo, they work in. Green engine would seem like the most important one of those two in the moment, because if we do not save the world now. Then will there not be one to live on, and then would human rights not matter if there are not any people living on the Earth. However human rights are maybe what define us as humans if we do not pay attention to human rights. Then are there the cons for child labor in poor countries people living in inequality were some works earning just enough to live.
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