Saw this interesting clip in October's segment of 'Watching the World'. So crazy!
Divorce: Bad for the Environment
The surging divorce rate worldwide is huring the environment, since it results in increased consumption of limited resources. Divorce leads to more households, decreased household size, and higher consumption per head, says a study printed in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Divorced households in the US could have saved more than 38 million rooms, 73 billion killowatt-hours of electricity, and 627 billion gallons of water in the 2005 alone if their resource-use efficiency had been comparable to married households." In the year 2000, there were 6.1 million 'resource inefficient' households of this kind in the United States.
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