Oh, I’m sorry. Do you really think they’ll stop child labor even if we stop all mining of cobalt?
Even if we were to somehow become miraculously import independent tomorrow, it won’t change that country’s views.
Further, you aren’t seriously suggesting our country, or some global institution SHOULD tell another country how to be ethical, are you? That’s sounds mightily globalist of you to do so.
The actual solution, if you really do care, is to support these archaic institutions so that such things are no longer necessary. Our country had child labor, much like this, until LAST century. We were able to become so economically wealthy it was deemed no longer necessary and we were wealthy enough to ensure those protections without significant economic loss.
Asking another country to end child labor is as useless as a rich man telling a homeless person to get a job. There are numerous variables in the way of getting one person from one point to another. Same as countries. And it WILL take longer for some countries to catch up such as the Congo, which has only had it’s current government for 20 years. It only became independent in 1960 after being under Belgium rule for less than a hundred years. Became a dictatorship a shortly after that finally fell in 1997. It’s current government, which came to power in 2003, has suffered many human rights issue.
And only now do you care about such things, why?
Because you don’t want to buy an electric car.
Hey, you know what? I get it. You don’t want to buy an electric car even if it’s more practical or more economically viable even if it’s economically inconvenient for you.
I get it.
Change is hard.
Just look at the Republic of Congo. It’s arguably still a dictatorship.
