The Critical Mineral Rush Isn’t About Climate — It’s About War

The green revolution is being weaponized and the planet is collateral

The ‘rocks’: not about climate, but about war (photo by author)

They said it was about the planet. That lithium, cobalt, and rare earth critical minerals would break our addiction to oil. That mining more today would mean burning less tomorrow. That this was a race to stop climate collapse — not a scramble for power.

The called it “essential.” The agreed. Even the mapped out what they called “strategic dependencies.” The U.S., the largest historical polluter, poured billions into the mineral supply chain through Biden’s . A green future, they told us, depended on what we pulled from the ground.

However, along the way,

The discussion of decarbonization began to disappear from federal documents. Clean energy has been replaced by “national security,” “supply chains,” and “great power competition.” Minerals stopped being about transition — and started being about military control.

And the man behind the wheel is no longer pretending otherwise. Because now, Trump is saying the quiet part out loud.