We're a large, sparsely populated, cold country with a resource based economy. It takes a lot of joules to heat our buildings, a lot of joules to move things around, and a lot of joules to extract resources for the world. Joules means GhGs. Then go and put a tiny population number in the denominator and it's no wonder our per capita GHG numbers are high. That's not to forgive us or say we're the best in the world, but to say we should be embarrassed by it is a stretch.
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