Former President Donald Trump had bragged about his success in opening the region to oil production after decades of political fighting over the resources locked under the tundra there.

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    A billion people are on track to die from climate change, according to some estimates.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change

    Even if we call that highly inflated, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, some non-negligible number will certainly die as a result with some multiple of that facing harsh negative impacts. A disproportionate number of those will be in Africa.

    If your argument is based in morality, it’s absolutely absurd to suggest the moral concerns of cobalt mining outweighs that of climate change.

    You raised a very valid concern, let’s work to make it better instead of running back into the burning building.