Posted on June 1, 2010 - Filed Under News
After 40 years,
Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, plan to separate.
This is preposterous! Doesn't Al know that divorce leads to more consumption on the planet?
According to Green Tech:
As if the burden of divorce weren't bad enough, people with failed marriages can be blamed for global warming, according to a study by Michigan State University.
Divorced couples use up more space in their respective homes, which amounts to to 38 million more rooms worldwide to light, heat and cool, noted the report.
And people who divorced used 73 billion kilowatt-hours more of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water than they would otherwise in 2005.
Dissolving a marriage also means doubling possessions, from the lowly can opener to the SUV. The report, however, did not estimate how many more natural resources the children of shared-custody parents consume by getting birthday and holiday gifts twice.
Nor did it count the greenhouse gases spent to shuttle kids between their pair of energy-hogging households.
Just another example of Al Gore telling us all how to live and not able to do what's best for the planet himself.
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