What’s green about Congolese children mining in Africa for rare earth minerals? What’s green about China’s coal-fired factories churning out solar panels? What’s green about wind turbines that scar landscapes, slaughter birds, and rely even more on critical minerals from China? The answer is simple: nothing. President Donald Trump’s reentry into the White House will unlock affordable and reliable energy avenues, all while bulldozing the previous administration’s faulty “green” narrative.
The term “green” has been weaponized as a branding tool to push a radical energy transition that is anything but clean, sustainable, or just. Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently wrote in the New York Times about America’s so-called “green” economy, touting government-subsidized battery and solar plants as a new industrial renaissance. But what she fails to mention is that this vision of a “clean” future is built on exploitation, environmental destruction, and economic instability.
