Aw come on WM, you expect the policy makers to make sense?
In a world where airline bag weights are limited because it is more important to employ enough women as baggage handlers, whether or not they are physically capable of doing the job, than to employ people who are "right" for the job?
Yet you complain that they will not look beyond the trees.
2.6bn of the people are the problem. But the remaining 5bn people are the opportunity to sell junk and grow companies owned by the nations of the 2.6bn.
Of course they don't want to see it.