Mica Is In Expensive Phones And Cars But Why Do Miners Make Next To Nothing | Risky Business
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- In Madagascar, thousands of adults and children risk their lives mining for a shiny mineral called mica. It's found in electronics, cars, planes, and even paint. But even though mica is found in products worth thousands of dollars, miners earn just a few cents every day. Drought in the country makes the situation even harder. So why do miners continue this dangerous job, and what is being done to help them?
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
1:38 Journey to the mines
2:03 Inside the mica mine
3:59 Drought in Madagascar
4:45 Journey to another mine
6:41 How mica is bought and exported
7:43 Child labor in mica mines
9:26 Efforts to help
10:03 Conclusion
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Mica Is In Expensive Phones And Cars But Why Do Miners Make So Little | Risky Business
North Carolina was one of the leading mica producers in the nation and still is and the mica mining here is not nearly as dangerous as these mines in Madagascar. With mica being relatively common, one would ask why allow such dangerous mining especially involving the use of child labor? Then when I heard what they pay these people it became real apparent why large corporations buy resources from countries like this. It isn't because there aren't resources, especially in the case of mica it has to do with labor cost, mining regulations, insurance and mining cost. These corporations would rather get around these things and put people in danger and pay them nothing than to get these resources from regulated safely mined sources. Greed is such a terrible thing.
This is one of the many flaws in unregulated capitalism. If there is a cheaper source it will always be preferred unless regulated to be more costly. Capitalism will always exploit people because it is cheaper. It's that simple.
What do you expect from capitalism
Greed one of the deadly sins 🙏🏾
it is outrageous!
The other option is that these people have no work and no income, leading to no food. If the risk wasn't worth the reward they wouldn't be doing it.
The rich make 11million but the women and children make $3 freaking disgusting
The lack of oxygen in these mines is so understated, since co2 is heavier than air it sinks and the bottom has very low oxygen, also the mica dust in the lungs can lead to cancers
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ I'm a boy and I like men
@@Bipedalduck Believe it or not, straight to jail.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8sorry, Jesus is the prophet and the Father is the God 😐
it's worth mentioning that basically any fine particulate matter significantly raises your risk of cancers. That's why PM2.5 pollution from wildfires is so bad, it's basically giving people 10-20% higher chances of cancer.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8shutup
It's like diamonds. Many people have no idea where the material comes from. All to just feed the ego and fill the pockets of the rich. The worst part is that many will never have a chance to live a meaningful life. This is truly sad.
Same for chocolate. Cocoa beans are grown in cote d ivore and the farmers have never even tasted a chocolate candy bar.
@@gladitsnotme That is just wrong.
Their language is very pleasant to hear. I pray the drought is relieved with some of the excessive rain we are getting where I live.
The singing and music of the Malagasy people is lovely and sophisticated. David Lindley and Henry Kaiser recorded a three volume CD set of music, "World Out of Time", with musicians of Malagascar back in the 1990's. It's simply gorgeous; my wife and I used some of the music from it in our wedding ceremony. Lindley was a semi-famous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who passed away earlier this year. You have almost certainly heard his slide guitar and violin playing on records by Jackson Browne, James Taylor, David Crosby and Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt (his 2nd cousin), Jesse Colin Young, the Bangles and hundreds of others (that's Lindley playing slide guitar on Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty" and "You love the Thunder"). He played stringed instruments from all over the world and was well versed in musical stylings from just about everywhere, but in his musical collaborations from Madagascar he took a backseat to the local musicians so they could shine. You can find some of those recordings on TH-cam.......check 'em out, you will like it. ( There's also a ton of solo or duet acoustic performances by Lindley on TH-cam, as well as full band shows with his insanely great reggae-rock jam band El Rayo-X from the 1980s. It's a rabbit hole that, once entered, could take you months to emerge from!🙂).
I thought the same thing! Prayers for these people...
Malagasy
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8 Hail Satan!!
they could always MOVE out of the desert.
Our lack of equality/care for human life beyond who we experience day to day is sickening
Dumb people make too many dumb people! And they all suffer! Luckily its almost over because of abrupt climate change and 6 trillion tons of methane hydrate!
"civilization"
This is their own choice, they’re illegally scraping from open mines- of course the government isn’t going to support them since they have no formal training
Do you think capitalism is the root cause of this problem.
@@user-xz2ms4my9u no, because plenty of businesses/business people do excellent charity work. I blame individuals in those positions.
Its so sad that these people suffer from financial issues when they are suppose to be the ones who profit majority of the profits made from these mines
Depends on whats mined. Problem is most minerals are purchased in bulk at set prices and industrialized mining means those prices are often low, for high quality sheet mica that price is about $1.60 per kilo if it's mined in the US who are willing to pay more for locally produced stuff, in a 3rd world country that price is going to be even lower. That's also the value of the mica and quiet often that means the price the company using it is willing to spend and not necessarily what the miner can sell it for, especially considering the fact that in small scale mining of any kind there are often middle men. A small miner will usually sell to a distributor or wholesaler who may sell that on to a larger national company who sells to the company actually using the stuff and everyone along the way wants to make a profit, large mines can sometimes bypass a lot of that but not the people who sell each days haul at the end of the day and only extract a few kilos at a time. There's also the issue that some of these mines are illegal mines, people just going onto someone else's property (public or private) and digging it up without the owner getting a cut, so if they do thing above board that also means giving the owner of the mine a cut too (although some small scale miners may also own the mine). That's all true even with high value stuff like gold and even true in 1st world nations like the US, i used to work for a company who sold scrap gold and even for 24k gold they'd get around 80% the value of gold and that was selling tens of thousands of dollars at a time, not $10 at a time.
@@arthas640there shouldn’t be a “problem” because market value changes. The big whigs should eat that up for making bad decisions. The workers should never have to suffer because of stupidity from the “top”.
sound like everywhere in life
Digging tunnels in gaza is more profitable.
My grandfather was a mica miner in Karelia,Russia during soviet union and told me how industrialized it was. He told how they would find it, use explosives to mine it and equipment that was used aka gasmask, mining cards etc. He told me that it was quite okay living, but he also said it went out business sense electronics changed and mica had almost no use in soviet union and that was about 40-50 years ago. So looking at this video gives me weird feelings and I cant put my finger on it to be honest, like that it shouldnt be this way, but it just is.
Thing is there is a way to not exploit the underprivileged people of the world. It just required the ultra privileged to do something which they wont do voluntarily clearly.
This is the reason i stopped using make up back in 2018
@@tazmycreations9185If you and many people stop using make up, then the company can't produce make up anymore which in turn these children can't work anymore to feed themselves. So sad we condemn the company who exploit these children yet if we don't buy them, these children won't earn anything.
@@angelsub9184 i stopped long ago for the same reason
6:52 bless her heart 😅 at least she's honest
It's crazy how we can have CEO's and company execs making hundreds of thousands, millions, billions and yet these people earn basically nothing.
We can't really blame the CEOs and the companies, we should blame their government, this type of 'exploitation' around the world needs to stop and sadly the only ones that can stop it its the government of those countries
Reason why government is there at the first place. It’s so important to have policies and Heath regulations.
@@asasdsaasda yes we can. they choose to buy mica from these mines and perpetuate this abhorrent abuse in order to increase their own profit margins instead of using their capital and power to source mica from areas with fair labor practices and support fair working conditions in these countries. a mass boycott of a government’s major exports makes them pass regulations quite quickly.
It's specifically because these people get nothing that the people at the top make insane amounts of money. It is stolen wealth.
I’m telling you, you only become a billionaire CEO in one of two ways - you’re a criminal, or you’re a criminal. No one hordes that much wealth without stepping on other people and/or exploiting others.
Very interesting indeed. This is one reason why I would like to see commercial mica mining return to North Carolina, USA. There were some
famous mica mines there
Developed nations only mine stuff if there's enough money in it to pay workers a decent wage. It takes a lot of equipment and a lot of technical details and it might not be possible to mine mice in the US profitably even if we have better deposits than Madagascar.
It's called outsourcing. Globalzation means the grunt jobs taken over by turdworld states while the better jobs stay in the developed world.
These people need a livelihood either way. Taking away their only choice isn't helping. Someone(government) needs to invest in this area so they can either mine safer, or they can have an alternative way of life.
@@aj-sz8mu The Madagascar government is equally broke.
@@aj-sz8mu and send their children to school.
@@aj-sz8mu this, it's the same problem with blanket bans on child labor that don't do anything else to help. people are going to these extremes for a reason, and if you take away one option without providing any help then what choice do they have other than to do it illegally or go to another extreme? it's the same with drug laws, it's the same with prostitution laws, abortion laws, etc. so much progress could be done just by requiring that the miners get paid for what the mica is actually worth so they can afford to only have the adults working and afford safety equipment.
I was involved in the gem and mineral business in the USA for 20 years and have seen tons of that material, sold at the Tucson show as well as the Denver gem show, it wholesales at 40$ a kilo if I'm correct it's been a few years now. any way that material is then priced usually 2 to 5 times for retail in rock shops and such. the end user makes the most money
Hello Michael, I am involved in the business of Mica from Africa I would be happy to share more with you especially on the market side of it.
Some of us would love to hear it@@sailaspiano9548
Hi @@sailaspiano9548, what does the middlemen get from the Chinese or corporations for the mica mined in Madagascar?
Thank you for your great journalism. Amazing work !
This is a crappy report. Mica is like sand or dirt, it's everywhere. Why is this mica special? Stop being a damn idiot and ask yourself, "what is mica" and maybe this will make more sense.
Very well covered.
I remember taking Toasters apart as a kid ... and the oldest ones has thick (2 or 3mm) mica sheets with the heating element wrapped around them :)
Good camera work, interesting video
I used to find this all over the woods as a kid in New Jersey and was always looking for a bigger, clearer, shinier chunk.
Everywhere you go, no matter what you do, you get paid as little as possible and your work is sold for as much as possible by people in fancy clothes who pretend to be better than you. In time, perhaps, because of the wealth they stole from so many, they may become better educated, be in better health, and have more things. However, let it never be forgotten that it was an unjust system that got them that wealth. To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Never forget that.
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel. Proverbs 20:17
4:00 That must be the most inefficient plow ever created, requiring 2 people in an awkward position plus one to drive the oxen.
great documentary.
ah yes, exploitation. it roots down in history. exploitation always happens when something of value rises, it used to be spices and tea leaves, now its mica and other valuable mineral and materials for electronic devices and modern technologies. these people really deserve the profit that they deserve. its laughable how much they are at loss for mining Mica with how much its actual value is.
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Hacking rocks out of the ground takes no skills or education. Low-skill jobs have always been compensated poorly just as those occupations that require very high levels of skill and dedication and many years of education are compensated very well. The laws of supply and demand will not be ignored.
@@xchoofwhat's so bad about a profile picture?
@@cvn6555 like silver and gold
As a kid in the suburbs of Boston Massachusetts we had Mica in our backyard and I used to dig it up for fun .
The deforestation n water scarcity is a major concern for all the people and countries.
They surrounded by water. Even no energy input by the sun desalination systems produce lots of water. It's a skill issue.
@@tylerwestover234 desalination is extremely expensive, which is why the only countries that use it for agriculture are high income nations like Saudi Arabia and Israel. In order to water a farm you'd need a fairly large facility to produce that water and once you do you still need to transport it, which in a dirt poor country like Madagascar that means loading up buckets and jugs and carrying it either on a humans back or an ox's which is fine if you're near the coast but not so great for anyone who's more than a few hours walk from the coast. Piping it in means someone needs to lay those pipes and install pumps to get it to the farms or at least to central locations for farmers to get it. That all means added costs which is why even many wealthier countries rely on wells and rivers to get water from and why they rely as much as possible on natural rains or irrigation channels (most of the worlds top farming regions like the US corn belt or most of the farms in India and China rely as much as possible on those for example). If you're a subsistence farmer like these people are you're pretty much at the mercy of the weather, which has been true across cultures and across time, it's mainly been centralized farms or large scale farms that can work around mother nature.
@@arthas640 You can literally use a tarp and a lined pit for desalination. It's a skill issue.
@@tylerwestover234it’s almost like this dude sits behind a screen all day which were made from the stuff that dozens of little kids had to do hard labor while he gets money from his dad to eat pizza and drink coke
@rake10 Sounds like you are projecting. I own commercial property free and clear and have traveled the nation with my own money. Coke? I don't even drink soda little buddy.
Poverty in Africa biggest problems, and we we have all types of minerals 😢😢😢
So, should we not get mica from them? It provides them with jobs. As the reporter said, they need the work… It’s terrible and I’m definitely better off. But it’s really down to supply and demand, more risk = better pay, and inability to improve/scale.
Dude we are exploiting them when we know they should be getting paid higher wages. This is no different than sweatshops. It’s about morale and ethics, they know they can get cheap labor elsewhere and don’t have to set regulations because it’s a foreign country.
And yet you are happy because it gives them jobs. Children are getting cancer and they have little to no knowledge about how and why.
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by Insider News is truly a gift. 👏👏👏
Like mini documentaries!
Almost every yoututbe video is for free 🤦🤦🤦
someone could've got pregnant and given birth in the time period you commented and I responded
Risking your life to get a nickel a day is wild
Ricking your life to eat to survive is normal in most of the world. If they had another choice they would take it.
They're paid nothing because the base material is worthless. it's the skill labor and refining that gives the material its value. It's like saying why is oil so cheap when gasoline is so expensive lmao.
This is heartbreaking. 😢
You should do an episode on the superfund site in Montana where they knowingly mined vermeculite that contained asbestos.
Libby, Montana. The workers didn't know that the fluffy dust that came home on their work clothes, and which blew into town from a mile away, would sicken and kill their family members too. Management, however, was eventually informed of this, and yet didn't change their practices or way of doing business. Even worse, the puffed up Vermiculite mica that came out of their roasting oven was shipped all around the country to use as insulating material in walls and attics of people's homes, and as a moisture retaining additive to potting soil. Read the book "An Air That Kills" for detailed history of Mica, asbestos, and also the talc mining industry which similarly creates asbestos poisoning. Asbestos-laden talc from upstate New York was once used as a filler in crayola crayons!
@@goodun2974 Thanks for the informitive comments. I will read that book, its a horrible case of greed. I did asbestos abatement for about a year and a half in my early 20s and was interested in the material and its history. Its an amazing material. Im praying my children dont have to watch me suffer from my decision to do that job. Its really sad that the miners werent able to make that decision.
@@Pnw208make sure you have a good life insurance policy
When i was a child at my home town in sumatra island, i still remember that mica can be found on the surface, no need to dig a depth hole
Sad, the rich profit off of the hard work of the poor people...
There's so much mica sheets in my home town, we just leave it like a waste I've never knew that it is useful..
Why do they make next to nothing? Because they’re working with next to nothing. It’s very simple
Its shameful how good we have it in the "developped world" , yet we continue to be wasteful and care about things that rly don't matter
Go live in a third world country or feel grateful instead
Speaking for yourself only.
Guilting a few thousand strangers via keyboard does not create self-worth.
Shameful? Our forebearers worked their asses off, to get us where we are now - few of them lived in better conditions than these poor souls. You know what they did? They worked and stood up for what is theirs. But apparently that is more than what can be asked of today's poor. Now we have to hand them wealth and rights they will never make their own.
And speak for yourself when talking about being wasteful.
@bernhardstil6128 founding fathers were not poor, they were business owners with status...remember back than a poor man couldn't vote
@@fluffles9591 and still they worked and fought and bleed and died so that they might see a better future. And guess what - in the end not only the rich became richer: Our whole society and everyone in it now owns more than ordinary people even 200 years could have hoped for.
And to this day most of us actually value social and economical achievements. Because we learned and understood what price was paid.
❤❤❤ wow ilove this video ❤❤👍
This is what goes on the duck lips and botox cheeks of millions of rich women...
I really hope life gets better for these people 🙏🏻
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8stop shoving ur propaganda in our faces
Keep buying phones to support them
@@onion_____😂😂😂😂😂
@@onion_____ dont want their hard work to go to waste.
Your prayers don't give them PPE
The new vice news ty
Situations like this are made worse by useless and hopeless corrupt government officials
Why they born children's? This world is a hell, not bring kids here
it is so sad how little money they made from this risky business
On the brighter side, if it weren't for these mines a lot of these kids would starve every time there was a drought.
Such is life. Blame the corrupt leadership, not free trade.
@@Joe-sg9ll Yeah, the leadership of a nation is directly responsible for both securing property rights/ deterring crime and building effective infrastructure for people to use and not starve.
@@Joe-sg9ll ...So you think these folks are dogs.
Interesting outlook bro.
@@Joe-sg9ll What makes you think the government is any different?
@@Joe-sg9ll Exactly
Id say the dust is one of the main reasons they risk their lives, but to be fair thats pretty easy to mitigate to some extent with a simple mask, the doco didnt explain why they dont wear masks
The miners are probably not aware of the existence of silicosis. They just do what they have to do. They probably don’t have the money to buy the appropriate masks either :/
@@Darknimbus3 so someone should tell them about silicosis, dont need any special mask, a cloth would be better than nothing...having said that, my comment was more about the fact the doco didnt explain why they wernt wearing masks, even though it was supposed to tell me why they risking their lives. Id say for the cost of filming that they could have educated the people and given them masks
@@Darknimbus3 it seems the video is about awareness so if they dont know about silicosis, maybe start there, and if they dont have the money to buy the masks im sure the doco could have said that, was more my point
'The miners are probably not aware of the existence of silicosis' - and yet the focus seems to be about how its really white peoples fault for buying iPhones, the people buying cell phones are also likely to be unaware of silicosis as well though
@@andosoup98 Western journalists' livelihoods depend on these tragic stories, if everything was good - journalists would not have jobs
Dang! Little did I know I could have been selling mica
I just peel back layers and search for garnets
The anvils are 100% not parallel. When I calibrate mine the standard swings as it is only contacting on part of the faces
Mica is also a hardware store chain in my country
1:12 heartbreaking to hear this from a child
Semi conductor is so expensive now but the miner is so poor 😢
Thats capitalism works for you
Sorry to bring the bad news. Silicone is used in semiconductors, not mica.
My best friend, You Great Good... !!! I wish you every day of your development. Best Relaxing +thumb up3!
destroying the forests for charcoal probably isn't a great idea for the future. Madagascar's future looks bleak.
This will only get worse
This drought will possibly never end, maybe pause for 1-2 years
Yeah Madagascar is kind of screwed. Even before climate change the place was super arid and drought prone and a growing population only made things worse as theres less water per person even if the amount of water stayed the same. To make matters worse people used to rely on boabab trees for sustenance but many of those have been cut down and trees also help droughts by pulling water from deep underground to the surface and by holding soil together.
They way they farm is the biggest problem here...
amazing
I used to dig up a TON of this stuff out in San Diego as a kid for fun. damn
The comment about needing pain killers to get thru the day is interesting. Makes me wonder if the mine owners keep the miners addicted as a way to control them.
unlikely, opiates procured illegally are pretty expensive and mica is pretty cheap, about $1.60/kilo so buy addictive drugs would seriously cut into their bottom line. More likely they're just taking something cheap like anti inflammatories which can have their prices subsidized by foreign medical aid and a national healthcare system. High impact labor like mining causes a lot of wear on your joints which causes a lot of inflammation so an NSAID can be pretty effective, sometimes even more effective, than addictive opiates. Usually addictive drugs are only used by employers for higher value jobs like prostitution or drug dealing, both jobs where you can earn a manual laborers daily wage in an hour.
Oh 😮 mica means Mike or light and sound receiver or recorders or coal sheets or heating batteries or satellites 😮😮😮
What I find curious is the lack of adult men in the mines, like, are they working elsewhere?
Climate change affects people in more ways than skeptics tend to reduce it to. Changes in the yearly temperature and rainfall might not seem super important to the greedy politicians who have never tended to a plant in their lives, but to the poor farmers who have few alternatives, it is absolutely crushing.
One wonders how deep a well would have to be bored in order to give these people a water source for irrigation. Those mines are quite dry, dozens, perhaps hundreds of feet below the surface ---- but I wouldn't want to see anyone trapped at the bottom of one when it rains.
cope harder, as impossible as that is for people like you
Greedy politicians have nothing to do with climate change. Talk to God about that.
@@NeilGaede1 i dont want to talk to any god who creates millions of climate refugees. Doesn't sound like a god to me. Stop ignoring science and licking their boots
Sadly like everything else in life the least amount of money is made at the beginning of any production process. The real money is made by prcessors, manufacturing, snd distribution. 😭
Its called supply and demand. There are plenty of people willing to do the UNSKILLED labor. Meaning there is a massive supply of workers. If they want better paying jobs - then they need to make themselves worth more. Learn a trade that few people can or even want to do. Real simple fix. Dont blame everyone for your situation. DO SOMETHING.
In Mexico there are those types of minerals. and they are on the surface. it is dark. and they look like layers of glass
When i saw Refinery29 video about children labor, that video had 17M views so after 4 years i was thinking India’s government would banned child’s labour but..
Canada exports 20 million Kg of mica annually, itsells here for about 15 cents a pound
130lbs of mica for $3 is super cheap! someone please give them more! 🎉
This is in our place too
It’s also used in eye shadows, and makeup products.
We need to help these people
Is this the Antsirabe-Betafo area?
11 million dollar while the big companies make trillions.
😢 Nimeni nu face așa ceva de plăcere face de nevoie!😕😐
imagine how much better that would work with some tech...and also safer. that is horrendous...
Yeah, they would benefit from better mining tech, also if they're having a drought with their farms, then what they need is water desalination
@@RyanCunningham I think it is not just evil, but plainly inefficient of the companies to have their miners do it like that. they could invest ans have a fair and more efficient enterprise
I can't believe in this technological world mamy people still have to go through these things 😢😢
Bruh I pray for them to get some rain too 🙏🏼
I can't believe they do it like that. They don't understand basic techniques. It can be done with scrap metal more efficiently. The situation in Africa is too tribal. Too divided. People use tribe as identity. They don't get together in groups large enough to matter much internationally and they don't get along. I guess they have no exposure to technology. How does no one in there land teach them anything? Over all these years? It's sad, I can send them a book on the gold rush, even though that mining uses different techniques, you get my point. People must support your neighbors not rely on handouts. Bless them all!
Just a cheap cordless roto hammer would increase production so much
God bless these people
You’d think you’d see more well systems to collect more rainwater to score the groundwater together
I really wish people would get paid their fair share, and then some depending on the risks involved. While we enjoy cheap walmart electronics, these people suffer.
Have you ever bought any Electronics from Walmart?
The weird irony is, she mining mica which gets processed and that process is causing the drought and reason she can't go back to farming.. 🤦♂️
They need to wear mask with all that mica dust. These companies purchasing the mica can’t provide that?
They need a Solar panel, a few extension cords and a concrete chipper.. If someone donated them that, they would be set to increase production 20x or more per day.
I'm noticing a pattern with these insider news videos
I've seen these shiny thing on a ton of stone on the beach in south Africa. Never did I think it was an actual mineral people mine. I just just saw it as shiny flakes on the stones
I mean... there is totally a safer way to get this stuff out of the ground.... the use of shoring for instance, rather than making a crawlspace tunnel, make it big enough to walk in then shore it up. It would increase production.
You know what a miner in the USA would make if all they got was a bucket of ore in a day? Pennies.
Human rights violations and companies using these products should be heavily penalized and fined. NOT acceptable business practices
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A mica é cheia de ouro, é mais ou menos trinta e cinco porcento ouro , é só por no ácido nítrico e aquecer 190 graus aí vai evaporando o cobre e bismuto ferro, depois é passar na bateia para separar as escamas , e o ouro fica na bateia, ouro bonito, principalmente a mica dourada e pesada, e isso que pena que estas pessoas não sabem que o ouro tá nas mãos delas, e ficam aí na pobreza.
I don't know anything about history,but this place must be a former french colony
What is the price of mica
11 millions dollars? Is that a mistake? That’s pennies, so sad
So sad when I can go to the Aussie out back and it is every where on the rocks and ground :(
why? because there is a huge infrastructure that needs to also be funded to bring it to market.
and we consumer, carelessly throw away the products containing the produce of these hardworking people !
They need to learn better farming practices!! They are killing the soil
Why haven't the uses there weather changing mechanism to make it rain?
The inside of a passenger plane has less oxygen than these mines.
It sounds like the real problem is the drought - they need help from the permaculture experts Geoff Lawton and Andrew Millison
When filming down in the mines, do the workers bring the camera with them or do you have another person operating the camera? If the latter I'd be very interested to know what that dynamic is between the camera person and the worker. I can't imagine watching somebody do grueling manual labor while I just hold a camera. Is it acceptable for the camera person to offer help at all?
I bet you there would be liability issues involved if the camera person would offer any help. Don't ask me how or why. That's often a thing within these industries 🤷♂
Where do you think those photos of starving kids come from?
Ok…….it’s a documentary? For us to learn and see what goes on in the world. Make up it is used for mainly, and even added to nail polish for that shimmery glow in blush and lipstick and eye shadow…..
It maybe safe for occasional or even daily user, but for these ladies trying to make extra money feed their families.
they prob just give them a tenner
most journalist and camera people don't help at all in these situations. Helping once makes YOU feel good and does nothing for their long-term situation. its just delaying the inevitable.
How grateful i feel watching this. Her life goal was to grow rice. What a hard life they are born into..
It doesn’t feed our electronic addiction. It feeds the rich people behind this. There is absolutely no problem to pay 50 bucks more per device to give these workers more money, food, safety, insurance and machines. But those who are earning billions increase the price only for their own dirty ass.
Each device cost less than a fifth of the cost to completely create it. Greedy pigs deciding they’re work 4/5s needs to stop.
You are more than welcome to donate all your disposable income to the starving in these countries. Stop acting like it is someone else's fault...