Research Director @cplusci // Co-Director @transitionsec . Political economy & ecological crisis.
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10 Sep 2025
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 UKš§µ
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āReliance on fossil fuels ... is a security risk to countries, populations and economies. Only by transitioning to renewables can you remove that risk.ā
@patrickmbigger speaks to @7ampodcast on the environmental costs of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/aā¦
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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"āa disturbing image & exact opposite of what we're doing. Always be lazy, Third Way!
grist.org/politics/green-newā¦
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Mar 25
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.
Mar 24
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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Mar 19
"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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āInstead of clinging on to a broken transatlantic partnership, Europe needs to develop an independent foreign policy based on international solidarity, restraint and climate collaboration.ā
Our briefing in @guardian š
theguardian.com/environment/ā¦
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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:š
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āReturning 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 UKā.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecommuniā¦
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Patrick Bigger retweeted
16 Dec 2025
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.
16 Dec 2025
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/workiā¦
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16 Dec 2025
The Pentagonās planned cobalt stockpile ācould be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity ā more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the USā.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @FT.
ft.com/content/42ab497c-c606ā¦
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Patrick Bigger retweeted
5 Dec 2025
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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Clear instance of what I described in essay below. Trump is willing to use power of US govt not just to halt US climate action, but to undermine beliefs of actors everywhere that future is carbon constrained, by imposing pain on those who try to reduce emissions.
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5 Dec 2025
NEW: The Pentagonās Cold War-era stockpiling threatens the supply of minerals needed for the energy transition.
Our analysis shows the Pentagonās planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/mininā¦
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4 Dec 2025
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.
4 Dec 2025
The global arms race is undermining climate action as critical minerals needed for the green transition are diverted.
Our briefing on the Pentagonās return to Cold War-era stockpiling from Lorah Steichen covered in @guardian.
theguardian.com/environment/ā¦
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1 Dec 2025
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 UKās support for brutal US-led wars overseas.
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2 Dec 2025
NEW ESSAY: Read @_RajPatel on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment. Ā
transitionsecurity.org/polycā¦
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18 Nov 2025
Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series
18 Nov 2025
Our tech and energy systems being transformed. But how and in whose interests?
Read @IliasAlamiās āImperial State Capitalismā to understand how the development of AI & the energy transition are being shaped by profiteering & geopolitical competition.
transitionsecurity.org/imperā¦
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17 Nov 2025
Kudos to the people of Ecuador, who voted down a referendum to host the US military again after it was kicked out in 2008. Maybe makes it a little harder for the US to launch a monstrous war on Venezuela too.
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14 Nov 2025
Watch out for @IliasAlami's brilliant new essay āImperial State Capitalismā ā published by @TransitionSec on Tuesday!
14 Nov 2025
ā[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.ā ā @IliasAlami
Listen back to our launch via @macrodosepod
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14 Nov 2025
We are delighted to join over 100 organisations in endorsing this resolution.
14 Nov 2025
The Israeli governmentās 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-ā¦
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