http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120301797.html?hpid=moreheadlinesDivorce Found to Harm The Environment With Higher Energy, Water Use
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 4, 2007; Page A02
Divorce is not just a family matter. It exacts a serious toll on the environment by boosting the energy and water consumption of those who used to live together, according to a study by two Michigan State University researchers.
The analysis found that cohabiting couples and families around the globe use resources more efficiently than households that have split up. The researchers calculated that in 2005, divorced American households used between 42 and 61 percent more resources per person than before they separated, spending 46 percent more per person on electricity and 56 percent more on water.
Their paper, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also found that if the divorced couples had stayed together in 2005, the United States would have saved 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water in that year alone.
In that case - shouldn't we approve same sex marriage, or for that matter just living in sin. Hell if more people living under the same roof helped save the environment then lets push for poly-marriages or better yet, just tell the kids to never leave home and bring their spouses under the same roof.
Clearly the more people living under the same roof, sharing the same resources, are going to be healthier for the environment. I could have saved someone a ton of research money and told them that! Somewhere out there a fundie is going to buy into this report that this means marriage promotes a healthier environment.
Really all this report says is the more the merrier under the roof could be saving resources
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