The Moral Cost of Your Phone — Transcript

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1. 0:00You're holding the world in your hand,
2. 0:02but to build it, someone else has to
3. 0:04suffer. And most of us ever ask whom?
4. 0:08Your phone runs on cobalt. Mostly mind
5. 0:11in Congo by hand by children 12 hours a
6. 0:15day. No safety gear, just a pickaxe and
7. 0:18survival. And that's just the battery.
8. 0:21Next, it ships to factories where
9. 0:24workers live on site, sleep in bunks,
10. 0:26and build devices they can't afford.
11. 0:29This isn't rare. It's a supply chain and
12. 0:32every phone company knows it. You don't
13. 0:35dig the mines. You don't run the
14. 0:38factory. You just buy the phone.
15. 0:41Scroll, swipe, charge, repeat, and it
16. 0:44works. But here's the question you to
17. 0:46face. Are you responsible for the pain
18. 0:49you benefit from? You don't have to
19. 0:51throw away your phone, but you do have
20. 0:54to face what it really costs. Because
21. 0:57behind the glass are the hands that
22. 1:00bleed. Life's traded for convenience.
23. 1:03Ethics doesn't start with guilt. It
24. 1:05starts with awareness. With the courage
25. 1:08to ask, if comfort comes at cost, are
26. 1:12you willing to see who's paying for it?