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Yep... We suck... or rather out smoke stacks blow. The list from the article (see below) is interesting. I wonder how many of those Eastern Bloc nations sitting at the bottom of the list are getting their negative numbers from simply modernizing their equipment? Lithuania's -66% is impressive but how bad were they to begin with?
This isn't to lessen the fact that Canada isn't achieving the goals rather it's interesting to see the econmoic and geographical divide on this list (England and Germany being the big exceptions to this divide).
By the way, how the hell did Monaco jump by 37%? They have no large industry to speak of and can't really expand any larger than they already are (i.e. you can't build suburbs in Monaco). Can everyone be using the helicopter shuttle from Nice Cote d'Azure or driving vastly inefficient cars?
Country Per cent
Spain +41.7
Monaco +37.8
Portugal +36.7
Greece +25.8
Ireland +25.6
Canada +24.2
Australia +23.3
New Zealand +22.5
Finland +21.5
Austria +16.5
United States +13.3
Japan +12.8
Italy +11.5
Norway +9.3
Denmark +6.8
Liechtenstein +5.3
Netherlands +1.5
Belgium +1.3
Switzerland -0.4
European Union -1.4
Slovenia -1.9
France -1.9
Sweden -2.3
Croatia -6.0
Iceland -8.2
Britain -13.0
Luxembourg -16.1
Germany -18.2
Czech Republic -24.2
Slovakia -28.3
Hungary -31.9
Poland -34.4
Russian Federation -38.5
Belarus -44.4
Romania -46.1
Ukraine -46.2
Bulgaria -50.0
Estonia -50.8
Latvia -58.5
Lithuania -66.2
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