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Originally Posted by Azure
The point being that if you want to throw around stupidity like 'oh per capita we are worse than the rest of the world', then its only fair to discuss out of 'per capita', who is actually the problem, and whose actions wouldn't make a difference.
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If the middle class of Canada (middle 40% of income deciles) was its own country, their per capita emissions would still be #1 among western nations and top 10 in the world, at about 16t of CO2 emitted per capita per year.
So no, in Canada at least this isn't a problem of just high income earners causing emissions. Relative to the rest of the world, we're almost all high income earners and we produce an inordinate amount of emissions.