Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likes to talk a big game.
But she's about to get exposed in the worst way.
And AOC was blindsided by this bad news that she wanted to keep hidden.
Green New Deal Electric Vehicle Battery Lie: China Controls Cobalt and Lithium Mining Supply Chain
AOC and her Green New Deal squad spent years selling electric vehicles as environmental saviors.
They promised EVs would rescue the planet from climate catastrophe.
Now a bombshell book just torched their entire narrative.
Journalist Nicolas Niarchos spent years investigating the supply chain for lithium-ion batteries powering electric cars.
What he found exposes AOC and every Democrat who pushed this scam.
The batteries in electric vehicles depend on minerals extracted through methods that destroy the environment and exploit workers around the globe.
This is the dirty secret Democrats desperately wanted to keep buried.
Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo looks like something from a Charles Dickens novel.
Workers risk their lives digging through dirt with hand tools searching for valuable rocks.
China turned Indonesia's Sulawesi island into an industrial hellscape.
Nickel processing facilities now blanket what used to be pristine coastline.
Local farmers watch helplessly as their land gets destroyed.
All so AOC can drive around in her Tesla pretending she's saving the world.
China Dominates EV Battery Supply Chain Democrats Made America Dependent On
China controls the entire supply chain for electric vehicles and Democrats want us dependent on them.
Beijing spent decades building the infrastructure and manufacturing capacity to dominate EV production at scale.
They didn't accomplish this through some magical breakthrough in green technology.
China did it by exploiting workers, trashing the environment, and pumping billions in government subsidies into the industry.
The country burning more coal than the rest of the world combined now gets to control America's energy future.
Democrats want Americans buying Chinese-made batteries built with minerals extracted under conditions that would be felonies in the United States.
AOC's Green New Deal doesn't reduce America's dependence on foreign powers.
It makes the country more reliant on China than ever before.
China's doing to these countries exactly what brutal regimes have always done.
Exploit the weak, grab the resources, leave destruction behind.
Democrats Exported Environmental Destruction to Fund Green New Deal Virtue Signaling
Democrats love feeling morally superior about their climate policies.
Electric vehicles let them pretend they're saving the planet while looking down on everyone else.
The reality? They just moved the environmental destruction to countries they'll never visit.
As long as it's not happening in America, Democrats sleep just fine.
Chinese workers and Indonesian farmers suffer so AOC can feel good about herself.
The EV supply chain creates massive pollution and human misery.
But since it happens in Africa and Asia instead of America, Democrats don't lose any sleep over it.
China's too busy cornering the market by using cheap labor and ignoring environmental standards that would bankrupt American companies.
Democrats pushed electric vehicles without thinking through any of the consequences.
Total dependency on supply chains controlled by a hostile communist regime? Check.
Environmental costs shipped to developing nations that can't fight back? Check.
Congo workers risking their lives in dangerous mines so AOC can lecture Americans about climate change? That's the daily reality.
That's the truth she wanted to keep hidden.
Sources:
- Peter S. Goodman, "The Dirty Truth About Your Clean-Energy Car," The New York Times, January 16, 2026.
- Nicolas Niarchos, "The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth," Penguin Press, 2026.
