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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Also, if we're going to use borders to assign responsibility:
Per capita emissions in Alberta: 58.02 metric tons per year
Per capita emissions in China: 7.6 metric tons per year
But I guess if there's less people in Alberta nothing needs to be done
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Per capita emissions are a smoke and mirrors guilt tactic when the goal is reducing GLOBAL emissions. The only thing that matters is how much emissions each entire country puts out, and Canada is directly responsible for 1.5%, basically nothing. Yes Canadians live in a cold country, yes Canadians have big industries for the size of our population. The per capita argument doesn't mean that each individual Canadian pollutes more, it means we have big industries compared to the number of people, we punch well above our weight economically compared to other countries. If Canada completely disappeared the world wouldn't even notice emissions wise.