Canadians can toast each other smugly over hot tea and pretend that either climate change can only benefit us or that we are not the problem anyway. We can point to what our forests, wetlands, grasslands, and crops absorb and claim we as a country absorb more greenhouse gases than we emit, but that’s not true.
Drop those teacups, Canada, don’t even think about champagne glasses. This country produces 1.6% of global emissions, which makes us the ninth largest emitting country in the world. Canadians are also among the highest per-capita emitters in the world, and the highest per-capita emitters among OECD nations.