Research Director @cplusci // Co-Director @transitionsec . Political economy & ecological crisis.
Joined May 2010
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I'm so excited to share the launch of a new collaboration between @Cmmonwealth & @cplusci :Transition Security Project. TSP will be a home for research, analysis, and new policy thinking at the intersection of climate, economy, & the military industries of the US and UK🧵
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“Reliance on fossil fuels ... is a security risk to countries, populations and economies. Only by transitioning to renewables can you remove that risk.”
@patrickmbigger speaks to @7ampodcast on the environmental costs of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/a…
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Great story overall on @cplusci's new Working Class Climate Agenda, w loads of great quotes from @patrickmbigger.
And quotes from Third Way calling us "Biden on steroids"—a disturbing image & exact opposite of what we're doing. Always be lazy, Third Way!
grist.org/politics/green-new…
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This is the rotten heart of European strategy.
Rather than accelerate the green transition, Germany partners with a genocidal state to convert civilian industries to war production.
FT Exclusive: The tie-up would be the highest-profile example yet of the German car industry, where profits have plunged amid rising Chinese competition and a stuttering transition to electric vehicles, seeking partnerships with the defence sector. ft.trib.al/VdiIFhp
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Part II of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran.
Kate Mackenzie on the long-term effects of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz on oil markets and petrostates
Patrick Bigger and Kevin Cashman on the Omnicidal Fossil Empire
break-down.org/oil-war-ii/
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"omnicidal" is the best descriptor I've heard so far
h/t @patrickmbigger @cashmank_
Part II of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran.
Kate Mackenzie on the long-term effects of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz on oil markets and petrostates
Patrick Bigger and Kevin Cashman on the Omnicidal Fossil Empire
break-down.org/oil-war-ii/
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“Instead of clinging on to a broken transatlantic partnership, Europe needs to develop an independent foreign policy based on international solidarity, restraint and climate collaboration.”
Our briefing in @guardian 👇
theguardian.com/environment/…
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During last night's SOTU, we heard that Dems and the "Green New Scam" are making working people's lives worse. But Trump's plans and promises are *actually* what's making life more expensive and more dangerous. Here are three reasons why:👇
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“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecommuni…
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Workers suffer when governments prioritize war over the general welfare. Biden-Harris prioritized militarism, leading to electoral disaster for Democrats in 2024.
For @TransitionSec, I argue for a political agenda centered on working-class security.
NEW: Read @stephensemler on how the expansion of the US warfare state has made the working class less secure.
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is a better electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/worki…
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The Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile “could be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity — more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the US”.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @FT.
ft.com/content/42ab497c-c606…
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Two quick thoughts on the NSS.
1) US is dead serious about coercing allies to abandon climate commitments and swallow US fossil exports. "Climate realism" lives in Trumpworld as use of non-fossil energy is equated with "subsidizing our adversaries".
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NEW: The Pentagon’s Cold War-era stockpiling threatens the supply of minerals needed for the energy transition.
Our analysis shows the Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/minin…
New work by my colleague Lorah Steichen shows how the pentagon is stockpiling the raw materials needed for green industrialization and hoarding them for imperial war making in places like Venezuela. The US *should* be stockpiling these materials, but for socially productive ends.
The global arms race is undermining climate action as critical minerals needed for the green transition are diverted.
Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to Cold War-era stockpiling from Lorah Steichen covered in @guardian.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Our Co-Director @KhemRogaly spoke to @SkyNews today about British war crimes in Afghanistan.
We need accountability for these crimes, but also a new foreign policy that ends the UK’s support for brutal US-led wars overseas.
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NEW ESSAY: Read @_RajPatel on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polyc…
Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series
Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how and in whose interests?
Read @IliasAlami’s “Imperial State Capitalism” to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imper…
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Watch out for @IliasAlami's brilliant new essay “Imperial State Capitalism” — published by @TransitionSec on Tuesday!
“[There are] new fusions of state & private capital at the very heart of US empire, where state ownership is harnessed for militarised competition & imperial scrambles over tech & resources.” — @IliasAlami
Listen back to our launch via @macrodosepod
🔗podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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We are delighted to join over 100 organisations in endorsing this resolution.
The Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act. I'm introducing a resolution to recognize the genocide in Gaza and call on the U.S. to take action to fulfill its obligations under the Genocide Convention with 20 of my colleagues.
tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-…
