Ah, remember the good old days when people just stayed married for the kids? Now it seems you have to consider the planet in your decision to stick around or split, because a recent study says divorce is bad for the environment. I'm starting to think I'm going to get a little fatigued with the "bad for mother earth" stories, just like I did with the whole "everything makes you/your kids fat" news barf. For god's sake, I do recycle and all...
Now, why oh why is ending your marriage going to send the planet into certain ruin? Well, divorced families have a bigger carbon footprint, what with the two homes, and while the households have less people, the data suggests that they use the same amount of energy as a full house (homes must be bigger for when the kids are around even though the kids are only there half of the time). The US Census says in 2000, we got six million more households due to divorce. But since I highly doubt most divorces are entered into lightly, I'm not seeing much of a solution here unless we all try and conserve more and waste less. Or as some nut-noodles will tell you much too zealously, we should all stop getting married and having kids in the first place.
