I can't recall any stories of any objectors enduring anything particularly bad, maybe it would get worse if more people started doing it, barely anyone rejects their service, even during active moments of conflict

That, as I stated before, is not the title. It is the title YOU gave the post.

When you post an article into lemmy, it will grab a title that was specified in a field by the article, this was the title it grabbed, YOU can test this out for youself by creating a post with the same link, I DID NOT create the title, it was automatically fetched by lemmy, which means at some point in time this article had this title.

I don't disagree it is primarily the companies faults for accepting minerals mined from places where they shouldn't be. If the mining company couldn't sell their minerals they wouldn't bother mining it there in the first place.

I think the reason the title is called "EV obsession is placing an entire population at risk of genocide" is to one catch the eyes of the reader who might not know much about where the minerals to make electric batteries come from and two to highlight since their is so much more demand because of the proliferation of EVs these mineral companies are looking to mine in much greater quantities everywhere and anywhere which is why there is a push to mine in this territory to begin with.

Many of “us” are controlled by a deceptive media system and secretive government that is actively trying to divide us. But the little people buying the EV (the ones having the “obsession”) are the wrong ones to be pointing the finger at.

This article did not point the finger at "the little people" in any way, including either version of the title

It’s obscene that a nickel rush to fuel supposedly sustainable consumption is in fact on the verge of wiping out the uncontacted Indigenous Hongana Manyawa, who truly live sustainably.

Survival International is calling for the urgent, immediate recognition and demarcation of their territory, an end to mining on their land and the establishment of a ‘no-go zone’ – the only way to ensure the survival of the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people.

It’s also vital that electric vehicle manufacturers publicly commit to ensuring that their supply chains are entirely free of materials stolen from the territories of uncontacted Indigenous peoples, or from companies operating on (or sourcing from) the territories of uncontacted peoples, including the Hongana Manyawa.

The most it did is call for international recognition of their territory and EV manufacturers "publicly commit to ensuring their supply chains are entirely free of materials stolen from the territories of uncontacted Indigenous peoples or from companies operating on (or sourcing from) the territories of uncontacted peoples"

They are saying that the demand for EVs is causing this, which it is, if the "little people" in great numbers did not want to buy EVs the companies would not be rapidly expanding mineral extraction into places where they haven't historically done so. They did not pin the blame solely or mostly on the "little people" given their stated demands of accountability from international bodies and companies. Just because you and most of the other people took issue with the phrase "EV Obsession" does not change this.

What good is it for these days besides for exploitation?

I don't know what type of exploitation you are referring to.

I couldn’t imagine going to another country with my wife and then just because we had a baby there, that the baby is a citizen of that country.

I think that the general idea would be that a lot of people doing that probably want their child to have the option to come to the USA, primarily to earn a massive wage on the world scale. You and your wife most like earn a lot more money than most people in the world, and that is the case even for minimum wage workers too. Not at all saying minimum wage workers have it good here, most states, you can't afford a two bedroom apartment on minimum wage and have to work more than one job. But if you're coming from some place very poor, that minimum wage salary can be a life changing amount of money for your family at home. Which is where the majority of children born in the US to non citizens come from, poor countries where their parents come to work. And those parents aren't and shouldn't be expected to delay starting a family and raising kids while they are working.

There is also the concept of birthplace tourism which would entail having a lot more money than crossing the border because you need to have a passport and to fly into the country and stay for long enough to give birth. People probably do this for a variety of reasons including political instability in their own countries. Although that child which is sometimes called an anchor baby pejoratively would have to at least file and possibly pay taxes to the US for the rest of their life depending on where and how they work, which would probably not be worth it to anyone, but rich people if they didn't intend to live in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1159072741/russians-argentina-birth-tourism-passports

Here is a recent example in another country

Shortly after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Alla Prigolovkina and her husband, Andrei Ushakov, decided they had to flee their Sochi, Russia, home.

Ushakov had been detained for holding up a sign that read "Peace," and Prigolovkina, a pregnant ski instructor, feared he would soon be drafted and potentially killed, leaving their baby fatherless.

The original plan was to stay in Europe, but anti-Russian sentiment discouraged them.

"We chose Argentina because it has everything we needed: Fantastic nature, a large country, beautiful mountains," Prigolovkina, 34, told The Associated Press inside the home her family is renting in Argentina's western Mendoza province. "We felt it would be ideal for us."

Also, your hostility and assumptions don’t make for a very productive conversation.

If you wanted to have a polite response you should not post Fify, that is a smarmy and rude way to talk, so practice what you preach

I am not blaming the consumer, I am specifically pointing out that it is not just on Eramet and the Indonesian government who are responsible and pointing out that places closer to home to you were involved in making the Indonesian government the way it is, not just an isolated company and an isolated country leading to this

good for you, wipe your hands clean from caring about anything

I wonder whose government assisted the Indonesian army in overthrowing their progressive president and slaughtering 100,000s of Indonesian leftists?

Could it have been your government the United States that did this with your grandparents tax money? Midwest.social user?

FIFY

https://jacobin.com/2022/02/suharto-indonesia-us-coup-communism-history-mass-murder-postcolonial-state

If you actually consider yourself a leftist commenting on c/communism you are beyond a disgrace, read the Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins and learn something

Well here you go, you could have clicked the link in the first paragraph of the article if you were so curious, but nonetheless

https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/honganamanyawa

As with uncontacted peoples the world over, forced contact has been disastrous for the Hongana Manyawa. Between the 1970s and 1990s, many Hongana Manyawa were forcibly contacted, evicted from the rainforest and taken to new villages by the government and missionaries. This immediately exposed them to terrible outbreaks of diseases to which the Hongana Manyawa had no immunity and which they still refer to as “the plague”. In a two-month period, in one village alone, it is estimated that between 50 and 60 people died, almost one person every day.

The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa have made it clear – time and time again – that they do not want to be contacted, to settle or have outsiders come into their rainforest. They are very much aware of the dangers which forced contact brings. As with the uncontacted Sentinelese people of India, it is little wonder that they have been known to defend their lands by shooting arrows at those who force their way in.

You're so smart! I surrender, don't think I'm cut out for the marketplace of ideas!

Maybe just maybe it is bad to be mining resources from uncontacted tribes who could not possibly consent to any of this, no matter how much you want to abstract it and say it's no one's fault for doing it.

I categorically disagree, and callous people like you are the reason why something like this is allowed to happen in the first place

It says so in the article, I usually don't change the title of the article

NPR will probably respond to this by hiring 50 republicans and still get defunded

They were one of the three House Republicans that voted for the Pro Act, the vast minority position among the party, which at least makes it interesting that they were picked, who knows how they will actually operate though

What the fuck are you talking about?

Everyone would need to pack their own meals and bring their own tents to sleep in, most modern armies top out at a million people, imagine trying to coordinate anything with 100 million people, Tokyo has 40 million people and is the biggest city in the world, it would be logistically impossible on so many different levels

I'm guessing this is from consumer pressure, until the Switch people definitely bought more physical copies of games and the minority of people got digital versions of DS/Wii-U games, but now so many people are using nintendo online and buying virtual copies people probably would not buy the next console if they had to buy the games they liked again.