Patrick Bigger
@patrickmbigger
Research Director @cplusci // Co-Director @transitionsec . Political economy & ecological crisis.
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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🧵
The desirability of electrotech over fossil as development strategy is becoming so blindingly obvious that only coercion and trade discrimination by US can slow it. The idiocy of kneecapping these industries domestically is unfathomable. @70sBachchan @noah_gordon_
80% of people live in fossil-importing countries. #COP30 can help change that: ✅ 92% of countries have renewables potential 10x their demand ✅ EVs + heat pumps + renewables can cut fossil imports by 70% ✅ That’s $1.3 trillion saved annually ember-energy.org/latest-insight…
New today in our series on critical issues at the climate/economy/geopolitics nexus- @tobitac shows the horrifyingly plausible ways that US's hostility to Chinese development isn't just a climate threat, but puts us all on a dangerous path from cold war to hot war.
🚨 NEW: Read Tobita Chow’s “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation. transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-warmi…
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 Here’s why.…
Read Adam Hanieh's urgent piece on Middle East oil, militarism and the transformation of world order “For the US, this deepening fossil fuel expansion — tied to its strategic alliance with the Gulf monarchies and their normalisation with Israel — is a crucial source of power.”
“By binding Israel’s military power together with the Gulf’s hydrocarbon reserves...Washington aims to push back against its weakened regional and global position.” Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series. transitionsecurity.org/oil-militarism…
Excited to announce @TransitionSec's essay series on geopolitics, the climate crisis and alternative security in a multipolar world. Check out the introduction below and stay tuned for the first essay out this afternoon 👇
“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.” Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions transitionsecurity.org/two-transitions
“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.” Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions transitionsecurity.org/two-transitions
I'm on @macrodosepod alongside great peeps, for an episode on war, climate crisis, and the economy. My own remarks focus on the rise of state capitalism with a military-imperial twist, at the very heart of US empire open.spotify.com/episode/4un13F… @CdsCambridge @Dept_of_POLIS
If you missed our launch event on 16 October, you're in luck! You can now listen back to the live recording with @stephensemler, @IliasAlami, @triofrancos & @LalehKhalili on @macrodosepod Learn about our forthcoming work at @TransitionSec 👇 open.spotify.com/show/7ABsNTles…
If you missed our launch event on 16 October, you're in luck! You can now listen back to the live recording with @stephensemler, @IliasAlami, @triofrancos & @LalehKhalili on @macrodosepod Learn about our forthcoming work at @TransitionSec 👇 open.spotify.com/show/7ABsNTles…
NEW from @DataProgress & @cplusci: As electricity prices rise, voters most often blame utility companies. They're not wrong: New research from @cplusci & @publicgrids shows that this affordability crisis is enabled by utilities’ ratemaking practices & policies, ... 1/2
“Reliance on military contracts to manage the economy will bring an insecure future: the military industry will create few jobs while investments in people’s everyday wellbeing are cut.” @KhemRogaly quoted in @ScotNational. thenational.scot/news/25564791.…
“[Govan and Scotstoun] shipyards could be converted to manufacture products for the offshore wind sector, drawing on the experience of naval shipyards across the world.” Our new research on worker-led industrial conversion on the Clyde in @ScotNational thenational.scot/news/25564791.…
⬇️⬇️⬇️ @KhemRogaly & @patrickmbigger in Jacobin
The insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet. jacobin.com/2025/10/milita…
Very important project by @KhemRogaly and @patrickmbigger!
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org
Super excited to be associated with this new transatlantic project on demilitarization and decarbonization. Please sign up for the online panel featuring the best: @LalehKhalili @triofrancos @stephensemler and @IliasAlami.
🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Join us for a free online panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler, @triofrancos & @IliasAlami, chaired by @LalehKhalili 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climate-…
Looking forward to this event s tonight with some of my favourite folks!
🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT Join us for a free online panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler, @triofrancos & @IliasAlami, chaired by @LalehKhalili 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climate-…
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org
Read our launch essay by @KhemRogaly, @patrickmbigger and Lorah Steichen. 👇 transitionsecurity.org/transition-sec…
🚨 TOMORROW! 🎟️500+ tickets gone! Join us to launch @TransitionSec, presenting our forthcoming work on the war economy, climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. 🎙️ @stephensemler @IliasAlami @triofrancos 🪑 @LalehKhalili eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-climate-…
“State spending on the war economy consumes public resources that could otherwise provide greater benefits to the working class while rewarding executives and big investors.” Our co-directors @KhemRogaly & @patrickmbigger write for @jacobin 🔗👇 jacobin.com/2025/10/milita…
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