Ever wonder what would have happened if the Joad family reached the California border to find a roadblock manned by CHiPs armed with high-tech weaponry? Let’s just say that the future version of “The Grapes of Wrath” will be a lot shorter (even if the modern-day Pa Joad is a militiaman stroking his AR-15).
Debt is debt, as the capitalists who call the shots in the historically top-emitting countries are fond of reminding us. No-one is ignoring China, but that country only started to go into hock in the last 20 years or so (admittedly at an alarmingly accelerated rate).
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The seven countries in question can’t credibly tell China to stop burning the planet for its economic well-being after they spent almost two centuries doing just that when their own attempt to pay off their existing debt for all that high living amounts to “moar guardz and gunz”.
