What should be done to improve lives in Congo?

[lightbulb27]

It's clear people are living quite awful lives mining the minerals we all take for granted... Cobalt, tin, etc..

Owned By China, will take pressure... and $ to change their reality.

I had no idea, I don't know

I don't know

I know... we should...

[Lliam]

All I know is that Belgium murdered close to15 million Congolese and mutilated many more after the western powers divided up Africa among themselves.

The Congolese people were treated like animals and forced to work in mines.

The same thing is happening today, except it is multinational corporations, not colonial nations committing the atrocities. Of course, the colonial nations are in league with corporations and the global bankers, so things haven't really changed. Theft of resources and abuse of people by the west continues.

[Dargil]

The USA should do nothing. We do not have a dog in that fight. Let the UN handle it

[exitseven]

Yes, even though people are pushing for electric cars I really don't predict that they are really going to replace regular vehicles.

[lightbulb27]

if that's where the resources are, if we become under threat of China, we will have a dog in that fight and it will come with marines.

[exitseven]

There is cobalt in the US and there is a way to extract lithium from seawater. Businesses only want it from the Congo so they can get slave labor.

[purplepoppy]

Countries like the Congo should be taken over by a western power, or even a successful African one. Sure a few would object but once run fairly and people see an improvement in their lives attitudes would quickly change.
The reality is it's corruption that hold these countries back and let's be honest China isn't the best country to sort that out.

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

Yeah, we sure did a good job in the Middle East

[purplepoppy]

Because we demonised the population rather than the leaders

[Agape93]

I have idea but none that I'll share on here

[lightbulb27]

yikes, it's that bad? blow up society with nukes? that would solve it, but then congo all be unemployed and poor.

[Agape93]

Unless you turn it all to glass. No destitute population, and more can't move in to mine the cobalt again due to the radiation without dying soon after.

[Anonymous]

If everyone is dead no one can suffer.

[lightbulb27]

true, that is a very defeatist and hopeless attitude though...