[MCN] Economists find carbon footprint grows with parenthood

[Lance Olsen]

News Release 15-Apr-2020
Economists find carbon footprint grows with parenthood
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Two-adult households with children emit over 25% more carbon dioxide than two-adult households without children, according to researchers with the University of Wyoming and Sweden's Lund University School of Economics and Management.

JOURNAL
PLOS ONE
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uow-efc041320.php>Full release https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uow-efc041320.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uow-efc041320.php>
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“The most painful and expensive way to deal with global climate change will be to ignore it until 
something happens that elicits powerful public demands for immediate and Draconian action.”
 
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“Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole ... is approaching a 
planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence."

Barnovsky et al. Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere. Nature Volume 486, 07 June 2012

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