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Thank you for providing this. It's a depressing and not-at-all surprising picture.
I like to hope that my family is well below this figure - more like what France/UK is at. But, this website combined with some finger-in-the-air ballpark guesses said we used 17.9 tonnes last year, and that an average household used 15-20 (per this chart). Even accounting for a 2,000km road trip holiday in the past twelve months (half a tonne by itself), I can't reconcile that we might be an above average household. 9.5 tonnes of it came from spending about $250/week on groceries - that's not excessive for a family of four, is it? Half of our footprint is in groceries.
Uhh, careful now. That's the average person. A household of 4 would multiply that number by 4!
Only, not really. It's difficult to try to make a comparison between the per capita emissions of a country and the direct emissions by an individual. Many of the biggest emissions will not be captured by an individual's footprint, even in a calculator attempting to capture as much as possible. It's why the entire notion of individuals' "carbon footprint" (a concept created specifically by BP as a way to shift blame onto individuals and stall real action on climate change) is mostly bs.
Also worth noting that this chart specifically says that land-use change is not considered. That's a big problem with agriculture, especially beef and dairy production. Aside from the ecological and other environmental issues it creates, it also releases a lot of carbon.