Divorce is bad for the environment

[Connonym]

"A rising tide of divorce is taking a huge toll on the planet, warns a groundbreaking analysis of the environmental impact of divorce.

The environmental cost of a marriage splitting occurs because couples and their families move into separate properties after divorce – meaning they collectively occupy more space, burn more energy, and consume more water than they did as a family unit."

Why stop with this? I think we should all live in communes and reduce the environmental load even further. I understand the point they're making and it seems entirely logical that sharing a living space is more frugal than living alone. I mean, duh! But don't get divorced for the sake of the environment? Let's toss that on it's ass and say "shack up to save the earth!"

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn12990-for-the-environments-sake-dont-get-divorced.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

[KitchenWitch]

1. If divorce is bad for the environment - what about single occupancy vehicles.

:eyes:

[Connonym]

5. too true

Isn't it funny how we (the collective human we) so often refuse to see the obvious?

[Bucky]

2. Well, now I have the perfect response to people who bitch about the size of John Edwards's house

[Deja Q]

3. They should meet me, the unshackable one.

:P

[Breeze54]

4. So, my kids moving out is also bad for the environment?

:shrug:

Maybe so but it's not bad for me! :P

[elfrangel]

8. Love the SIGN!!!!

Where did you find that?

[Breeze54]

11. On the internet, silly! ~ LOL!

Go ahead and steal it! Or just look on Cafe Press under Democratic Christmas etc. ;)

[elfrangel]

13. Thanks!!!

I just may "borrow" it. I'd really like to put it on my myspace page. LOL.... :evilgrin:

[Breeze54]

16. Just don't link it to my

Photobucket account. Upload it to your photo account. ;)

[elfrangel]

18. No problem....n/t

[Orsino]

6. To say nothing of the forests cut down for the damned paperwork. n/t

[Shine]

7. Pack yer bags, we're goin' on a Guilt Trip!

as if divorcing parents didn't have enough to be worried about.... :eyes:

Jeez.

[Connonym]

10. what kind of wardrobe do you need to take on a guilt trip?

:-P and more importantly do I have to bring along those tiny little airport approved bottles of shampoo?

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. Hair shirts and sackcloth are just the thing.

You need to put the ashes in a quart-sized ziploc and put your whip (for self-flagellation) in your checked baggage.

[Breeze54]

12. LMFAO!

:rofl: :rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

9. Well

we have already burnt more energy.....

he has his house
I have mine.....

we aren't even divorced yet!!!!!

lost


:)

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. My eyes hurt when I stare at this much burning idiocy

Not to mention my brain.

I'm separated from my husband. We occupy small homes. My son's bedroom is at his father's house. I have a roommate. We are destroying the earth more apart than together how, exactly?

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I know how to fix this!

The following Lounge Naughty Girls will scrunch in as closely as possible to me:










Nah, maybe I'd better not. :scared: