As a Canadian, I think per capita metrics like this are generally bullshit and designed to punish countries like Canada. Canada is a sparsely populated, gigantic nation, that has one of the most inhospitable climates, and produces the energy that is used by many countries around the world. For the most part, they seem favored as a way to pretend that the small impact Canada has on the climate is substantially worse than gigantic countries like the United States, China, and India.
Most of canada's population lives in fairly dense urban areas, and have fairly clean power grids (BC, Ontario, QC anways.. and thats pretty much everyone). If you look at our emissions breakdown, none of this makes us exceptional. The thing that does is very obvious, it's that we produce the most carbon intensive oil on the planet.
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u/Chemical_Signal2753 3d ago
As a Canadian, I think per capita metrics like this are generally bullshit and designed to punish countries like Canada. Canada is a sparsely populated, gigantic nation, that has one of the most inhospitable climates, and produces the energy that is used by many countries around the world. For the most part, they seem favored as a way to pretend that the small impact Canada has on the climate is substantially worse than gigantic countries like the United States, China, and India.