{"id":262357,"date":"2023-06-16T13:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262357"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T11:40:12","slug":"blood-panels-chinese-solar-industry-built-on-industrial-scale-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262357","title":{"rendered":"Blood Panels: Chinese Solar Industry Built On Industrial Scale\u00a0Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The CCP\u2019s use of Uyghur and Kazakh slaves allows China to manufacture the world\u2019s cheapest solar panels and the first world to feel smug about using them to purportedly \u2018save the Planet\u2019. Aalthough, evidently, these noble Western saviours aren\u2019t so concerned with those places where daily life is spent under lock and key and every move is scrutinised by jackbooted thugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCP \u2013 hardly renowned for its compassion \u2013 has rounded up something in the order of 2.6 million of its minorities and enslaved them as \u201csurplus labour\u201d<\/a>, hundreds of thousands of them have been directed into dozens of China\u2019s large-scale solar manufacturing plants; coerced with a mix of mass incarceration (aka \u201cre-education camps\u201d), threats to the victim\u2019s families and actual violence \u2013 in so-called \u201clabour transfer\u201d programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But give these characters their due, the CCP has managed to dominate not only the production solar panels, but is leading the world on the exploitation of ethnic minorities who don\u2019t fit the Party\u2019s grand plan for an ever-harmonious China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team from Jo Nova takes a look at a few troublesome facts for those\u00a0claiming virtue through the shiny panels pinned to their rooves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Solar Panels now in \u201ctop five\u201d worst slave industries<\/strong>
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
24 May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s more important \u2014 freeing people in slave labor camps today or making the world one hundredth of a degree cooler a century from now? Oh the dilemma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just another unintended consequence on the road to Climate Heaven. If solar panels were actually efficient and competitive they\u2019d make network electricity cheaper and theoretically, at least, there would be money to pay for real wages. Instead competition is cut-throat, and no country with a lot of solar panels can actually afford to make solar panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Walk Free study shows Australia\u2019s push for green transition exploits slave labour<\/strong>
By Jenna Clarke, The Australian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading Australian philanthropist Grace Forrest is warning \u00adClimate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen that the push for Australia\u2019s green energy transition could force more people into slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comprehensive international study, five years in the making, shows Australia\u2019s supply chains and products at risk of human exploitation for the first time, including solar panels which are imported from China at a cost of close to $2bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the first time, we have solar panels in our top five most vulnerable products of modern slavery. This is a confronting \u00adreality, one that speaks to compounding an intersecting crisis,\u201d Ms Forrest told The Australian.vMs Forrest said. \u201cYou can\u2018t harm people to save the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we cut back on slave made solar panels, where will the solar panels come from, and how much more will the forced energy transition cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s no accident 84% of all the world\u2019s solar panels are made in China. <\/a> No one else can compete with slave labour, and no one else has as much coal fired electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has cornered the solar panel market and supply lines. Squint closely to see \u201cthe rest of the world\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ironically, Grace Forrest, who founded \u201cWalk Free\u201d is funded by her father, billionaire Twiggy Forrest who wants to build the largest ever solar farm in the world in the Northern Territory. That may explain why she bizarrely doesn\u2019t believe in boycotts. Instead she wants a bigger government with more rules (just a lighter version of slavery, eh?):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From fashion to solar panels, taint of slavery stalks firms<\/a>
Hans van Leewen, AFR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Walk Free boss Grace Forrest says that although consumers should shop carefully, the real onus for tackling the problem is not on them: it is on governments and businesses \u2013 which are not doing enough, despite the strictures of the five-year-old Modern Slavery Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wants to see non-compliant companies hit with financial penalties. And she urges politicians not to worry about exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis, because paying exploited workers a fair wage would boost prices by as little as 1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Walk Free did not support boycotts, and was not asking consumers to take responsibility for eradicating modern slavery. As with climate issues, the equivalent of greenwashing could make it too difficult for the individual shopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magical thinkin\u2019 \u2014 apparently businesses can do this without hurting consumers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe actually argue the business should absorb that cost, rather than it being for the consumer,\u201d she told The Australian Financial Review while visiting London to launch Walk Free\u2019s latest Global Slavery Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We presume she flew to London for the launch. Nice work if you can find a philanthropist to pay for the trip. But hey, she could have been playing the party-circuit, and instead she is raising awareness of modern slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slavery in other G20 countries means we all need more laws, and more lawyers<\/strong>
Somehow because there is slavery in China and it\u2019s a G20 country, it follows that Canada and Australia need to bring in legislation and employ more bureaucrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact is that 50 per cent of the world\u2019s people living in modern slavery are residing in G20 countries,\u201d she said. This statistic showed that the slavery problem was not just in poorer countries \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s over here, not over there\u201d, as she put it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would like to see an increase in legislation across the G20 countries. Canada has just announced this. Germany is going to see their example set across the EU in the coming years. We just need the political will now to step up and do that everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Forrest says \u201cYou can\u2018t harm people to save the planet.\u201d Jo Nova says, \u201cThey are already harming people, and they probably won\u2019t save anything.\u201d What\u2019s wrong with boycotts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFERENCE \u2013\u00a0GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX, Walk Free<\/a>
Jo Nova Blog<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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