The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Green Pipe Dream Meets the Real World Where climate change hysteria collides with wartime and existential realities Dr. Mathew Maavak When I first sketched the following observations in the spring of 2026, during the opening salvos of the US-Israeli war on Iran, I wondered if the climate hysteria would survive contact with the real world. Five months later, the answer is a resounding no. The lofty, policy-driven push for a global “green transition” has not just collided with wartime realities; it has been utterly pulverized by them. For years, I have watched the growing chasm between the green transition and the brutal, mundane impracticalities of the real world. I have often wondered what exactly the rabid climate change activists were smoking. It was not just the blatant hypocrisy of the Davos set, flying their private jets to conferences to lecture the hoi polloi on the virtues of substituting meat with insect protein. It was their profound, almost comical detachment from ...

  Trump’s last chance to tango It takes two No1 As a thanks to my paid subscribers they received this article yesterday. After a day, it opens up for everybody else. In 1958 Mao Zedong found out who was stealing China’s grain. Sparrows. Each one ate about two kilos of grain a year, according to the Party. Multiply that by every sparrow in China and you’ve found why every granary sat empty in the country. source So China declared a war on sparrows . Everybody joined in. An estimated three million people banged pots, pans, drums and gongs for days in Beijing alone so the birds could never land. They flew until they dropped out of the sky. Nests were torn down, eggs smashed, the stragglers shot. Prussia had tried the same thing in the 1700s and got an outbreak of pests for its trouble. It’s always good to know your history… Roughly two billion dead sparrows later, the crop output dropped by about a fifth. Because what else do sparrows eat? Insects, in particular: locusts. Rice borers ...