The rising divorce rate doesn’t affect just the family– apparently, it takes a toll on the environment as well. According to a study published Monday at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, to lessen the toll humans are taking on the earth, it's better for people to stay together.
“A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household,” said Jiangua Liu, who authored the study. Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University, explains households with more people sharing space are more efficient than those with less-– for example, a refrigerator uses the same amount of power whether there is one person using it, or three.
Two households forming from the split of one married household simply doubles the amount of land, water, and energy consumption and usage. Liu calculates divorced households add an extra $6.9 billion in utility costs, as well as an added $3.6 billion for water.
The study stresses it isn’t condemning divorce, as Liu adds that “some people really need to get divorces.” It just aims to show that living with other people reduces the impact of humans on environmental resources.
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