Date: Dec 5, 2007
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Online Test: Recreate the text in this online test. Divorce is bad for the environment. This is the conclusion of a research study carried out by ecologists at Michigan State University in the USA and published in the journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'. Researchers found that divorce has different kinds of negative impacts on the planet, including a higher demand for resources and a lower rate of efficiency in the use of household resources. The research team analyzed data on married couples and their use of resources in 12 countries, including the USA, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico and South Africa. Lead researchers Eunice Yu and Jianguo Liu discovered that divorce led to smaller average household sizes, which resulted in a larger number of total households and thus a greater demand for energy, water, and land. In many countries around the world divorce rates have been rising. "A married household actually uses resources more efficiently," said Mr Liu. He added that people seemed surprised by his findings at first, and then after thinking about it, decided it was simple. He said: "People have been talking about how to protect the environment and combat climate change, but divorce is an overlooked factor that needs to be considered." His report states that in America in 2005, divorcees could have saved more than 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water if they had stayed married. In percentage terms, divorcees used 42-61 percent more resources per person compared with a married person. To help save natural resources, Yu and Liu recommended that governments consider the environmental impact of divorce and separation.
THE ARTICLE
Bias:
Discrimination /Superiority /Prejudice: Divorce is bad for the environment.
What makes it news?
Novelty - In nowadays society, divorce rates are rising.
Proximately - Divorce isn’t limited just in one country but the whole world issue.
P: to have a research in impersonal points of views without emotive materials in divorce problems toward to the society may decrease the negative responses.
M: The resource using may refer to the habits of different kinds of people. It’s really unfair to say that divorce people would use resources less efficiently divorced and single, it’s not good to judge a person in clarifying.
I: people often takes problems toward society, it’s rare to put their foundation on environment. And concerned on planet, caring the energy, water, and land is a realistic issue related to our daily life.
Comment: Don’t judge a person by his appearance, and don’t judge a person by his background. This article makes me feel that it’s really unfair to said so. They have to be sorry for the environment just because they enclosed the wrong marriages. Why people have to set this discretional research to hurt the person who is brave to face his marriage problem and walk out. Even the report’s point of view is really clinical, but as to my opinion, the news also remind people must makes sure that the person who can give you happiness and also can hold you hand to spend rest of your life, not just good for yourself but contribute your merely effort to the environment.
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