Mentioning China's lack of environmental regulations is just a red herring that distracts people from the real solution. Consider the following: It's illegal f

Mentioning China's lack of environmental regulations is just a red herring that distracts people from the real solution. Consider the following: It's illegal for me to build a cruise missile in the US. Likewise, it's illegal for me to import a cruise missile into the US. It's illegal for my startup to pollute when I produce a Gizmo in the US. However, it's totally legal for for me to import said Gizmo from China after I paid someone there to pollute for me. Any sane environmental regulation must be applied at the point of sale as well. The problem here is our environmental regulation. We can't change what China does but we can change our broken laws.