“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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US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
I was on Australia's 7 AM podcast to talk about the environmental impacts of the US/Israeli attacks on Iran, including updated carbon pollution numbers from the first month- nearly 9 million tons of emissions. War is in an incredibly stupid way to spend our shrinking carbon budget.
nah, not really my beat- more of a @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social thing
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.
Greenpeace install wind turbines at Trump's Scottish golf course
"every time he starts an illegal war, bills go through the roof, his fossil fuel backers make billions.... renewables Trump hates are the best insurance policy against the chaos he’s unleashed"
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I was on Australia's 7 AM podcast to talk about the environmental impacts of the US/Israeli attacks on Iran, including updated carbon pollution numbers from the first month- nearly 9 million tons of emissions. War is in an incredibly stupid way to spend our shrinking carbon budget.
Why are governments so dependent on private capital for investment and how do big institutional investors shape our economy? Find out more in our interview with @brettchristophers.bsky.social: www.faircomment.co.uk/p/a-brief-hi...
The #SantaMarta conference on a fossil fuel transition must navigate and address #military emissions and fossil fuel insecurity.
Our post explores this and how breaking from a consensus model can mean a break from military climate inaction. ceobs.org/fossil-fuel-...
@dougparr.bsky.social: “Common sense tells you that cutting down trees to burn them and then burying the resulting carbon emissions is a bad idea. This scientific study confirms that. Removing trees from one country to balance our carbon budget in the UK leaves the whole world poorer.”
Stop Drax!
Map showing the western United States mean temperature for January to March 2026 relative to a 1991-2020 departure.
Almost the entire Western United States is averaging more than 5°F warmer than the most recent 1991-2020 climate baseline so far in 2026, which is truly remarkable. Off the color scale here!
Graphic from wrcc.dri.edu/my/
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. 🧵
@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.
Was great to chat with @meadwaj.bsky.social @macrodosepod.bsky.social about the energy transition, resource extraction, capitalism, global north-south inequality & Left strategy amid the polycrisis that accelerates daily. In collab with @alameda.institute. Listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Gonna get a lot of ‘But Black Dynamite, *I* benefit from climate destroying corporate welfare!’ If ever we crack down on climate destroying corporate welfare
Today @cplusc.bsky.social launches a working class strategy for tackling the affordability & climate crises. The climate‑cost nexus is already costing billions every year, and it will get worse the longer we don’t act on climate; we also must address working peoples’ immediate economic problems
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.
Here's an agenda for a democratic, climate-forward politics, where we build state capacity for investment and regulation in the interest of affordability and public health.
Great work @pmbigger.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social!
stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org
Well, @cplusc.bsky.social is once again doing the coolest shit on climate that you've ever seen!
Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues
I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words.
Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...
@katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...
There is no reason to choose between confronting the affordability crisis afflicting working and middle classes today, and building a more climate safe and resilient future. We must do both.
stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org
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🧵
If you read one thing this week about the climate and energy crisis – and what we can and must do about both – then I highly recommend this from @cplusc.bsky.social. I'm on my way to New York to support the launch tonight!
Absolutely critical work being done here. Our affordability crisis and climate crisis are two parts of the same problem.
Greed.
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Stop Greed Build Green lays out four pillars: immediate econ relief, regulating industries driving the crises, rebuilding the public sector, & mobilizing huge investments. This is how we lower costs, cut emissions, & build real economic security. Read more at stopgreedbuildgreen.org
Tradeoffs can & must be managed by distributing costs progressively. That means shifting the burden off working households and onto the corporations & oligarchs who have profited from pollution and price gouging. Public ownership, rate caps & bold industrial policy make this possible
We hear that there are too many tradeoffs between decarb and affordability. The evidence says otherwise. Renewable energy is already cheaper than fossil fuels. Where costs do arise - grid buildout, industrial retooling, retrofitting infrastructure – how to pay are policy choices, not inevitabilities
Our agenda starts from the premise that the affordability crisis is driven in part by volatile fossil fuel prices, extreme weather, corporate concentration & decades of underinvestment. As such, decarbonization isn’t a luxury, it’s the only path to durable economic stability for working people
