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Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.
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- Hannah Ritchie Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World
But my point is that this is still not the reason (or is only a very small reason) why these goods from China are cheaper than elsewhere. The main driver of lower labour costs has been automation; not having a human worker at all.
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↗Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?sustainabilitybynumbers.com
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