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Canada wants to make cows burp less to fight climate change (globalnews.ca)
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The federal government is proposing financial incentives for farmers in lieu of cutting enteric methane emissions that are released in the air when cows burp.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These seem odd for some reason. like India with no goods carbon seems wrong? Canadian transport I expect as high due to the expanse of the country.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's per capita, so India's consumer spending of $2T (Macrotrends) is split by 1.42B pop, so $1,282 per capita.

Canada is $1.2T for 33M pop. $26,333 per capita, or 20 times greater than India.

I am not surprised at all that India's goods consumption per capita is a rounding error.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't think this was spending, I thought this was carbon production per category, and india produces a lot

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I assumed it was consumption, and used spending as a facsimile for it.

Why should SE Asia pay the carbon bill for the West's consumption?