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Canadian emissions have literally gone down the past couple or years, especially per capita

Not really though.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

Looking at 2019, since 2020 was Weird, emissions per capita appear to be down to 1970s-level https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/canada. Much work to do, but it's still progress.

It has plateaud over a period where Canada’s population increased by almost a third. Go look at China and India’s if you want something to be indignant about

China's per capita emissions are just over 1/3 of Canada's, and India's per capita emissions are about 1/10th...

So you're patting Canada on the back for a per capita decrease while demonising China and India for a total increase despite their per-capita figures being a fraction of Canada's?

No logical consistency there...

Ok and ? That’s not excuse. I could compare Canada’s emissions to those of Qatar and claim it’s no big deal, or I could compare Chinas emissions to those of Burundi and label them privileged polluters. CO2 is CO2 at the end of the day, and China and India are not doing their part , quite the opposite actually

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