Stay married — if only for the environment…
U.S. researchers, in a study believed to be the first to link marriage breakdown with its environmental impact, have concluded divorce definitely isn’t green.
They say it leads to “resource-inefficient lifestyles” that dramatically increase the consumption of water and electricity, and demands for housing.
Although it isn’t surprising that the study found separated couples and their children consume more than they would had their families remained intact, the amount of damage they cause to the environment hasn’t been quantified in such detail before.
For once, absurdest environmentalism and common sense line up — even the Greens want you to stay married now. Apparently if the good of the children, the high likelihood that round two will just repeat round one anyway, increased rates of depression and suicide and a host of stress related illnesses arn’t good enough, you can always just do it for the planet…
