People with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming
Divorce pains the planet
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As if the burden of divorce weren't bad enough, people with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming, according to a study by Michigan State University.
Divorced couples use up more space in their respective homes, which amounts to to 38 million more rooms worldwide to light, heat and cool, noted the report.
And people who divorced used 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water than they would otherwise in 2005.
Dissolving a marriage also means doubling possessions, from the lowly can opener to the SUV. The report, however, did not estimate how many more natural resources the children of shared-custody parents consume by getting birthday and holiday gifts twice.
Nor did it count the greenhouse gases spent to shuttle kids between their pair of energy-hogging households. (Tip for carbon offsetting services: the domain name OffsetMyDivorce.com is available.).
The research suggests that singletons who shack up with someone again can undo the ecological damage. Although it might be inferred that "living in sin" is also eco-friendly, the findings did not necessarily endorse the practice of unmarried couples living together.
Rates of divorce are rising around the world, while dropping in North America along with those of marriage, according to the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Divorce ends 46 percent of marriages in the United States, the seventh highest rate in the world, according to [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. . The top world record is held by Sweden, where 55 percent of marriages end by divorce. On the other end is Guatemala, with a mere .13 percent divorce rate.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and funded partly by the National Institutes of Health.
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As if the burden of divorce weren't bad enough, people with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming, according to a study by Michigan State University.
Divorced couples use up more space in their respective homes, which amounts to to 38 million more rooms worldwide to light, heat and cool, noted the report.
And people who divorced used 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water than they would otherwise in 2005.
Dissolving a marriage also means doubling possessions, from the lowly can opener to the SUV. The report, however, did not estimate how many more natural resources the children of shared-custody parents consume by getting birthday and holiday gifts twice.
Nor did it count the greenhouse gases spent to shuttle kids between their pair of energy-hogging households. (Tip for carbon offsetting services: the domain name OffsetMyDivorce.com is available.).
The research suggests that singletons who shack up with someone again can undo the ecological damage. Although it might be inferred that "living in sin" is also eco-friendly, the findings did not necessarily endorse the practice of unmarried couples living together.
Rates of divorce are rising around the world, while dropping in North America along with those of marriage, according to the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Divorce ends 46 percent of marriages in the United States, the seventh highest rate in the world, according to [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. . The top world record is held by Sweden, where 55 percent of marriages end by divorce. On the other end is Guatemala, with a mere .13 percent divorce rate.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and funded partly by the National Institutes of Health.
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Got to admit, I hate going to bed with a 'sweaty' broad!! May be some truth it that...
??????? I just wish I had the money that is spent doing studies like this!!! That has got to be close to the silliest thing I have ever heard. What if you never get married???? Does that mean you are willingly contributing to global warming?
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12.04.2007
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