The non-profit-making radical Conference Board of Canadajust liberate a studyshowing that Canadians grow more drivel than almost any other nation in the highly-developed humankind . And no , we are not babble about pop medicine .
According to CBC News :
The Conference Board measured melodic phrase pollution , scraps product , DOE usance , weewee usage and many other factors across 17 developed economies around the world .
While Canada pull in a few A grade in categories such as water quality , endangered species and the employment of forest resources , overall the country scored a five hundred average .
The 15th - place ranking put Canada only in the lead of the U.S. and Australia in the ranking .
The board notice that those three country have a few factors in usual to help explain their relatively dismal results : they have the turgid land multitude in the view , and they have the most imagination - subject economy in the OECD .
Canada fared dismally in term of the amount of barren we produce . In 2009 ( the data twelvemonth on which the work was base ) , Canada produced 777 kilograms of garbage per citizen . Across all 17 countries canvass , the norm was only 578 kg produced .
The numbers show that Canada produces more than double as much drivel , per person , than Japan , the good country on the ranking in that category , which made only 377 kilograms per person that year .
Canada also fared badly in use of our vast piss resources . On average Canadians apply twice as much water as do the resident of the other developed economies on the listing . Indeed , we use nine metre more water than people in the best country on that metric do , Denmark .
Canada ’s vast body of water resources encourage wasteful use , the board suggests .
“ exuberant water withdrawals in Canada can be attributed to the deficiency of far-flung water preservation practices and water supply pricing that does not promote efficiency , ” the board said .
The report found Canadians use 1,131 cubic metre per capita of water per year . The only country that uses more water is the United States , which consume 1,632 cubic metres per capita .
That is disgusting , Canada . And here I thought you were our clean , environmentally conscious , non - gun - toting protagonist to the magnetic north . Now I find out you are secretly Americans after all .
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