The reason that India and China are not included is indeed that they are developing countries. They simply cannot afford yet to produce under those standards. The US administration says implementing the standards would give the US a disadvantage. But the US economy is so far ahead that it will take the developing countries decades to catch up.
I like the idea of putting tariffs on goods from polluting countries that could afford more ecological production but don't do it.
And I honeslty cannot believe that you think US live expectancy has anything to do with air quality. Maybe a little, but medical service and nutrition play the major role there. If it would be so easy to say, India pollutes air, so Indians die and that is their problem. This huge hole in the ozone layer over Australia for example was not caused by Australian boomerang factories. Those people down under don't die from skin cancer because it is their fault. Global pollution caused the ozone layer to break over that part of the world because *insert intelligent metereologic comment*.
The KP is just an idea, a step, a start. But if the US do not take part then nothing is getting better and I better think about that whole having children part...
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