Asfandyar Yahya

ISLAMABAD: The metals inside your battery, lithium, cobalt, and rare earths are getting harder to find, and dirtier to extract.&nbsp; Mined in Congo, Chile, and Australia, these minerals come at a steep human and environmental cost, child miners, drained water reserves, and toxic waste.&nbsp; As demand skyrockets, shortages are looming and with them, price hikes, trade wars, and a stalled green future.&nbsp; For countries such as Pakistan, that means more expensive phones, laptops, even solar panels. So, the next time your battery is low, remember: the real crisis is not your dead phone, it is the dying supply chain behind it.

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As demand for batteries surges, the increasingly scarce and environmentally damaging extraction of key minerals threatens rising costs, supply shortages, and a stalled green future.

Articles tagged with "Charging"

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