Obviously the other main culprit (for putting carbon into the air) is China, and it&#x27;s not worth it for the US to try to exercise power over them.<p>As to the list of stuff you&#x27;re complaining about, you can only blame Australia (i.e., your fellow citizens and your politicians). Australia absolutely could just not do that stuff. The US is not going to invade Australia.<p>The reason Australia goes along with it is because it wants to.<p>And it wants to because it&#x27;s a whole lot like the US. All the former British colonies have a lot in common.<p>We probably should have all just stayed in one big empire. After all, the US Founders bungled up our system permanently by claiming that rights come from God, which is only a way to supposedly invalidate rights.