bzarb8ni,

Yes, and no.

As a Canadian, I’ll shamelessly plug the Canadian numbers for a minute.

  • Canada has a population of 38.25 million. (Or ~1/35th the population of China)
  • The US has 332 million (or a little more than 1/6th the population of China)

If we do per capita, Canada leads those 3 in renewable energy generated, at:

  • Canada: 2.77MW/person
  • US: 1.06MW/person
  • China: 0.8MW/person.

I didn’t do the other countries, so there’s possibly a higher country.

yogthos,
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Canada is literally the worst out of all G7 countries in terms of per capita emissions theglobeandmail.com/…/article-contradictory-spend…

bzarb8ni,

True, but I wanted to highlight that China isn’t “far ahead” of the pack, like the post suggested.

yogthos,
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In terms of scale and absolute number they absolutely are though. Canada might produce more renewable energy per capita, but that’s more than offset by the sheer gluttony of energy consumption per capita. Also worth noting that much of Canadian renewable infrastructure, such as solar panels, was almost certainly produced in China.

Bart,

Can’t wait for the libs to say: “bUt cHInA Is THe BigGEsT PolLUteR”. Not acknowledging this and the fact that most stuff is made over there.

yogthos,
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The funny part is that despite the fact that the west outsources a bunch of its production to China, per capita emissions in China are still lower than most western countries.

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