forever grifting
trump manages to make even solar look like a strip mine
Behold: the brave new green economy, where we save the planet by bulldozing it before the tax credits run out.
Out in the Mojave, the new gold rush doesn’t glitter, it glints: thousands of acres of public land about to be carpeted in industrial solar so private companies can cash in before Trump’s slashed-but-not-yet-dead subsidies expire in 2027. The Bureau of Land Management — that trusty federal real estate office for whichever industry shows up with a check — is cheerfully greenlighting mega-projects that bulldoze carbon-sequestering desert crust, crush habitat, and steamroll 10,000 years of Indigenous history, all so we can call it clean energy and slap it on a campaign ad.
Local activists and tribes keep pointing out that deserts actually store carbon, host threatened species, and contain hundreds of cultural sites, but the "climate leadership" model under Trump is apparently: gut long-term support for renewables, keep just enough incentives alive to trigger a panicked corporate land grab, and then let companies race to scrape every "empty" inch of public land before the tax credits vanish. BLM, which already manages one-tenth of the country like a clearance aisle for mining and drilling, is now doing the same for solar — proving that under this administration, we don’t transition away from extractive capitalism, we just swap the logo on the bulldozer.
So yes, the U.S. is technically building green energy, but it’s the same old imperial land-use story with a fresh coat of sustainability marketing: tribes fighting to protect sacred sites, rural communities getting bypassed on benefits, and ecosystems treated as collateral damage in the great investor stampede. Call it the Trump climate plan: weaponize policy chaos, hand public land to corporations, and then brag that the market is "innovating".
