China may now be the greatest environmental polluter.  May be that Creative Retirement 
book used lagging information.
China, India, and Philippines are taking American jobs by, and are accepting outsourced 
jobs based on lower costs of not having environmental, worker safety, social security 
expenses included in their costs

Story :  Talking with a Chinese young lady this week.  She had accompanied her husband 
to an American job.
When asked in passing if she planned to eventually return to China , she replied.
That was our original intent,  to retire with our American savings.  But that is 
no longer our plan.  Even with money you can not buy air. 
 “Air?”
“Yes, the air at home is horrible/”.  
“But, won’t that improve with time?”  
“Never.  Every year the population of China grows by the population of Australia.
All increases in productivity go to feeding a new Australia.  There is no chance 
the government will ever worry about making the air clean.”

Cows, generators of methane, contribute more to pollution than cars.
One volcano eruption in Indonesia created more pollution than a decade of industry.
A forest fire in California turns the moon purple in Iowa.

None of these concern SUVs.  SUV’s are safer; it is a decision of personal choice 
to pay more in fuel to protect the soccer mom and the kids.

Cows are sacred in India.  Will that nation be exempted when some government says 
that the peoples of the world must sacrifice beef and milk for the greater good of 
global warming? 

Kyoto.
Partial list of Developing Nations that do not have requirements.

111 countries not required to reduce pollution and 30 Annex I industrial nations are.
36 Annex 1 countries, 93 Non Annex countries
Red China, India, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia 
http://unfccc.int/parties_and_observers/parties/non_annex_i/items/2833.php
http://www.climnet.org/EUenergy/ratification/1990sharestable.htm
Attachments :  non-Annex.doc,   and   agree.txt