Thanks Karl, but I can't feel too pompous about Canadas release of the information, the Canadian centre for policy alternatives isn't a government body. It's a non-partisan research group/think tank. Still it's good to know that someone's looking into the alternatives to what the status quo types keep feeding to the press.
It was interesting that agriculture leaves the biggest footprint per capita, and yet the impact of food production on the environment doesn't change much, at least in Canada, as income levels change. So a wealthy person doesn't have much more of an impact on the environment through food consumption than a low income person.
The big differences are in energy use, and consumer goods.
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