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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
It's cool that virtuous paragon stampsx2 points out that Canada is only 2% of the worlds carbon footprint.
Why don't we talk about per capita?
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You have to realize though, we have an enormous country and a small population. A large portion of emissions comes from burning fossil fuels for transportation. That's why you also see other sparsely populated, large countries like Greenland and Kazakhstan up there are well. We simply have to burn more fuel to move around and ship things around the country.
I think Canada's like 15th in the world if you look at it per capita, behind basically all of the middle eastern countries, the US, and a few other randoms.
So if you really want to talk apples to apples, you'd have to make an adjustment for the sheer size of the countries IMO. Also, our very cold climate is a factor because heating our buildings I think is around 15% of emissions.
It's not as simple as you make it out to be. The one simple fact that we know is that we are a very, very small emitter on the global scale. So his initial point stands really.
Trudeau is just hurting the economy and not making any difference in the global scheme of things. It's all politicking.