Because the US has no political power, amirite?
On completely separate note, as an Australian, I'd like to thank the US for pushing it's list of verboten drugs onto us, for pressuring us to take part in it's wars of convenience, for pushing it's IP laws down our throat via treaty obligations, and for bending us over the desk with our "free trade" agreements.
Don't blame other countries, your own government are the ones fucking you - I can tell that from experience and recent history in my own country...
In any case, people seem to have missed my point, which is that the US has plenty of political power to get other countries to play ball. Do people really believe that something called a 'superpower' has negligible influence?
As to the list of stuff you'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.
The reason Australia goes along with it is because it wants to.
And it wants to because it's a whole lot like the US. All the former British colonies have a lot in common.
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.
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Plus I don't remember hearing quite as many reports of extremely polluted cities outside of China as I hear about in China.
People need to be doing their part in all the reference groups they belong to, be it their field of expertise, their local government, international communities they belong to etc. "Act locally, think globally".