“Reliance on fossil fuels ... is a security risk to countries, populations and economies. Only by transitioning to renewables can you remove that risk.”
@pmbigger.bsky.social speaks to 7am Podcast on the environmental costs of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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Earlier this week, @cplusc.bsky.social launched “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition.
The affordability and climate crises are inseparable. @cplusc.bsky.social's new strategy to put the working class in charge of climate & economic transformation is an essential intervention to build towards the economy we need and deserve. Honored to get to work on this with the CCI team.
We need policies that make our lives more affordable today and prevent our homes from flooding tomorrow. CCI's framework is how we do both. So proud of my teammates for putting this together!
Check out @cplusc.bsky.social’s new Working Class Climate Agenda at stopgreedbuildgreen.org and listen to @mayorofseattle.bsky.social on why it’s a political winner!
Well, @cplusc.bsky.social is once again doing the coolest shit on climate that you've ever seen!
Read our white paper and see how our working class climate strategy can address both the deepening cost-of-living and climate crises: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/whitep...
70% of voters think that economic policy can lower costs while directly reducing emissions.
55% of voters say they want elected officials to address the climate crisis and rising cost of living through coordinated policies.
How popular are these policies?
70% of voters think economic policy can lower costs AND emissions.
55% of voters want politicians to address the climate crisis and cost of living through coordinated policies.
Movements on the ground—from teachers to auto workers—are leading the fight to advance politically popular policies that address climate and affordability together: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org#map
@mayorofseattle.bsky.social joined our briefing to discuss how her policies align with our Green Economic Populism framework. Voters elected Katie Wilson in November 2025 after she made green social housing and environmental justice organizing a centerpiece of her mayoral campaign.
we have the power to improve the lives of working class people through tangible policies that lower costs, protect workers, reduce emissions and pollution, and increase our resilience to climate disasters. CCI’s framework lays that out:
When wildfires tore through L.A. last year and burned over 13,000 homes, landlords wasted no time hiking rents, gouging displaced families. The climate crisis is an affordability crisis. We need an agenda that tackles both. This is it.
Extreme weather is driving up the cost of food, electricity, and home insurance. Tech barons & fossil fuel execs are exploiting communities.
@cplusc.bsky.social’s new strategic framework & agenda charts a path forward to rebalance power for the working class and address the climate crisis at scale.
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: 7 in 10 Voters Think Economic Policy Can Both Lower Costs and Reduce Emissions. Description: Which approach comes closer to your view? Response Options: A) Economic policy can lower costs while directly reducing emissions. B) Don't know C) Economic policy cannot lower costs while directly reducing emissions. All likely voters — 70% chose A, 10% chose B, 19% chose C Democrat — 78% chose A, 8% chose B, 14% chose C Independent / Third party — 65% chose A, 16% chose B, 19% chose C Republican — 65% chose A, 10% chose B, 25% chose C February 20–24, 2026 survey of 1,122 U.S. likely voters.
NEW with @cplusc.bsky.social:
Sixty-one percent of voters say that climate change is impacting the rising cost of living.
And a strong majority of voters (70%) think it is possible to both lower costs and directly reduce emissions.
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We're staring down a brutally hot summer and energy and food shocks and cost of living crisis that climate change intensifies. There's endless money for war. But voters want policies that address the real threats to their security. At @cplusc.bsky.social, our new agenda has the solutions🧵
It's 💸Tax Day 2026💸—and the Trump admin is doling out a trillion dollar military budget & trillions in tax breaks for the rich, while slashing public goods for millions of Americans.🤑
We know that Workers Deserve More!🌹
Join our call on what our dollars could fund instead!👁️
Nationally, polls show that the majority of voters want their elected officials to address the climate and cost of living crises together—and they believe it is possible
Centrists tell us we have to choose between economic populism and climate ambition. They're wrong. With *green economic populism* we can tackle climate and the cost-of-living crises together.
Today @cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new research and policy agenda to move us forward. 🧵
Energy prices are up and heat waves are coming soon.
We need a new strategy to bring down costs, rebuild the state, and redistribute power, all while taking the climate crisis seriously as an economic disrupter.
@cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new framework for how to get there! ✊🛠️🌎
Workers are the engine of our economy and are the most affected by the climate crisis. A strategy centering immediate relief, robust regulation, state capacity, and public investment can move us from economic precarity to a green, stable economy that works for everyone. (10/10)
If the government continues to fail to act on the accelerating climate crisis, conditions will get much worse. Environmental instability, from extreme weather to resource scarcity to the volatile price of fossil fuels, will continue to directly inflate costs for working people. (9/10)
In state and local elections, we’re already seeing wins that tie the material impacts of the climate crisis to the cost-of-living crisis. Meanwhile, working class movements are taking matters into their own hands to advance climate and affordability together. (8/10)
Delivering Fast: Working families need to see immediate improvements in their lives. By intervening on the supply and demand side to quickly lower bills and provide better goods and services, we can build durable majority support for transformative green investments.
Fighting Greed: The government must rein in bad actors who fuel the climate crisis and make life worse for working people. This means regulating the fossil fuel executives, tech barons, and corporate landlords that extract exorbitant profits at our expense.
Building the Public Sector: The economy is organized to extract short-term returns at the expense of working people and our climate. The state needs the mandate, the financing tools, and the planning authority to do what private markets cannot and will not do: improve people’s lives and bring down emissions.
Mobilizing Investment: The federal government writes massive checks for destructive wars abroad and ICE terror at home, but offers mere pennies for social goods. By meeting public demand for clean energy, mobility, and industrial systems, lawmakers can create millions of high-wage, unionized jobs, ensuring a transition to an equitable, green economy.
The government can address the overlapping crises we face and rebalance power by delivering fast, fighting greed, building the public sector, and mobilizing investment. (7/10)
Our strategic co-directors @aldasky.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social detailed Green Economic Populism in this @nytimes.com op-ed. (6/10)
Green Economic Populism argues that effective policy interventions should be: Green: Improve working class lives through tangible climate policy that cuts carbon pollution and increases resilience Economic: Grow working class agency by rapidly lowering costs, breaking up the oligarchy, investing in high-quality public goods, and creating good jobs Populist: Build working class power against the elites driving climate and economic crises
A working class climate agenda connects climate politics to economic issues that affect working people, and builds a strong public sector. This approach is rooted in a framework called Green Economic Populism. (5/10)
70% of voters think that economic policy can lower costs while directly reducing emissions.
55% of voters say they want elected officials to address the climate crisis and rising cost of living through coordinated policies.
Nationally, polling by @dataforprogress.org shows that the majority of voters want their elected officials to address the climate and cost of living crises together—and they believe it is possible. (4/10)
We need a new political strategy to bring down costs, rebuild the government, and rebalance power to put working people in the driver’s seat of climate and economic transformation. (3/10)
US residents are staring down both the affordability crisis and the climate crisis. As prices rise and disasters mount, the government is abandoning the working class. (2/10)
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
The California Green Manufacturing Initiative is not just energy legislation: it is an affordability, climate, and union job strategy that would deliver billions in savings to ratepayers. Read more here! climateandcommunity.org/research/a-n...
The benefits are enormous: by stabilizing the supply chain and lowering equipment costs, our research shows that California ratepayers could save up to $200 billion cumulatively over the next 25 years and develop thousands of direct union manufacturing jobs.
