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| 离婚不利于环保Stay married -- divorce is bad for environment |
| http://english.enwell.net 2008-07-16 来源:N维论坛 |
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To find a reason to stay married, take the advice from US researchers: divorce is bad for the environment.
Irked spouses 怨偶looking for a reason to stay married were offered a novel 新颖的rationale by US researchers on Monday: divorce is bad for the environment.
The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
More households means more houses, fuel and water are needed for them, the researchers wrote.
"Globally, the number of households is increasing much faster than the number of people," said co-author "Jack" Liu in a telephone interview.
"Even in regions with declining population, we see substantial increase in the number of households. Divorce is the main reason for reducing the number of people in a household," he said.
The average divorced person's household is about 40 to 50 percent smaller than the average married person's household, Liu said. But whether there are three or six people in a house, the amount of fuel needed to heat them is about the same.
Divorce tosses out 丢弃，扔到，此为破坏any economies of scale规模经济, the researchers found.
In the United States, divorced households used 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 2.850 trillion litres of water in 2005 that could have been saved if households had stayed the same size as when they were married.
In the United States and 11 other countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico and South Africa between 1998 and 2002, if divorced households had combined to have the same average household size as married households, there could have been 7.4 million fewer households.
The number of divorced households in those countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica to almost 16 million in the United States around 2000. The number of rooms per person in divorced households was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married households.
"If you really want to get divorced, you know that two people cannot stay together, you don't want to stay together forever, then maybe you remarry with somebody else, or live together with somebody else you like," Liu said. |
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世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀，请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。
A troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
世界对着它的爱人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。它变小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恒的接吻。
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It
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