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Is a High Divorce Rate
Contributing Towards Global Warming? |
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Today, we have crossed the threshold of the industrial
revolution. Now, new industries are sprouting up all across the
globe. The previously detached areas, that were under developed,
are also being increasingly industrialised.
However, as with virtually all things, there is a flip side, to
the coin. All the increased activity in the industrial arena has
taken a heavy toll on the natural environment. It has led to a
situation where global warming has become the buzzword across
households and board rooms of the world.
Global warming is definitely causing a loss of sleep to numerous
people all over. In order to further broaden the issue at hand,
it is important to understand what global warming is all about.
The increase in the average temperature of air which is near the
earth’s surface as well as the average temperature of the oceans
in the last few decades, with the possibility of its continuing
increase, is referred to as global warming.
It has caused an increased melting of polar ice caps, the
Himalayan glaciers and a corresponding increase in the sea water
levels from one corner of the earth to the other. It is changing
the global climate in a drastic fashion.
It is feared that if appropriate steps to check global warming
are not taken on an urgent basis then it will probably lead to a
very changed, very different natural environment in the near
future, maybe within a fifty to hundred years’ time span itself.
It is already being blamed for the extinction of several species
of flora and fauna. The animal world also seems to be seriously
under threat from the spectre of global warming. Species such as
the polar bear and their ilk are supposed to be at great risk
with the increase in mean temperatures causing a change in their
habitats.
The main culprit for all this is supposed to be the increased
industrial activity across the globe. The emission of carbon
monoxide and other such gases is being blamed for an ever
increasing diameter of the ozone hole over the polar ice caps.
However, there are social aspects also for this increase in gas
emissions on the planet. It may seem strange at first but even a
seemingly unrelated thing as divorce amongst an increasing
number of populace is having its own impact on the global
warming.
Though it sounds strange, yet it is true and not at all
difficult to understand as to how the increased rate of divorce
is causing an increase in the global temperatures all over the
planet. A study to understand this aspect has come up with some
startling facts.
As the divorce rate spirals out of control, it is creating more
and more families with lesser number of individuals composing
the given families. This is the obvious corollary of the family
break up which follows a divorce.
These smaller family units automatically have the same
requirements as their larger or intact counterparts. However,
when the families are intact then they tend to use less of
everything as compared to when they have broken up.
For example in an intact family there will be a need for a
single home as a family shelter. This home is going to need
electricity and other energies along with water and similar
resources. All things are utilised to a limited extent.
However when a divorce takes place, then automatically, a need
arises for two different homes to shelter the now divided
family. These two homes, when put together, require more water,
more electricity and more of all other amenities as compared to
the intact household.
A divorce not only puts pressure on the system for more homes
and electricity but even other infrastructure such as the roads
have to be increased as a consequence of the increase in the
number of families.
Other resources such as fuel and wood and land also face a
corresponding increase in demand. Not only is there greater
demand for all the resources, they are also used in a
comparatively less efficient manner when compared with intact
families. Thus we can now easily state that divorce is bad for
the environment.
About The Author
James Walsh is a freelance writer and copy editor. If you would
like more information on how to get a quickie Divorce see
http://www.quickie-divorce.com
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