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youmu123 t1_iybu3xz wrote

Reply to comment by fish-rides-bike in Modern Slavery Is a Global Problem in All Renewable Energy Supply Chains: New Report by chrisdh79

Thing is, the vast majority of world labour is free labour, but a product's supply chain is not "slavery free" if even one step has forced labour.

"Forced labour" products are often 99% free labour, 1% modern slavery. That's why modern slavery permeates almost every supply chain even though modern slave workers are less than 1% of the world's workforce.

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lionhart280 t1_iye94ex wrote

From the article:

> The report noted that China’s Xinjiang region is where 40 to 45 percent of the polysilicon for use in the solar photovoltaic supply chain is sourced, and about 2.6 million Kazakh and Uyghur people have been interned, coerced and subjected to “re-education programs” there, reported The Guardian.

Thats a lot more than "1%"

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