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samx3i t1_it2u09m wrote

Any other Americans surprised to see Canada doing worse than us in this regard?

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Former_Star1081 t1_it2u4yy wrote

Not American but no not surprised.

They are pretty much on the same level now. USA just came from a higher point so they can reduce more.

The chart can be a bit missleading if you dont read it cirrectly. Morocco, which is very red, is the only country which is on the 1.5° path but it is not shown in the chart.

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YungPlugg t1_it2zsnn wrote

The area of Ontario my family is from just tore down a massive power plant and thousands of windmills have gone up over the past 15 years or so, so they’re on their way I think

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El_G0rdo t1_it9y6wx wrote

The US has had a 30% reduction in like 15 years because of the shale natural gas boom in Texas and PA. While it’s still fossil fuel, it’s allowed us to basically completely get rid of coal power generators, which are orders of magnitude dirtier than combusting methane. Also renewables have helped a lot. Meanwhile, Canada’s recent fossil fuel boom has been from far sand bitumen, which is super dirty and heavy oil. So we kind of have been lucky that fracking has reduced overall emissions despite us not actually putting in that much effort (as an entire country) to reduce emissions

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eh17368 t1_itaw73q wrote

Also because US had far more polluting industry than Canada thus the shift of polluting industries to developing world had far greater effect on reducing US than Canadian emissions

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waitItsQuestionTime t1_it6usjc wrote

This data alone is meaningless. Lets omit 10000% more co2 so we can go back and be the greenest country?

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