Divorce v Environment

The following is taken from Heart of America Radio. This was featured on XM radio. I found the research stunning. I know divorce is harmful on families, but I never really gave it's impact on our environmet a thought.
Gretchen Daily, a professor of biology at Stanford University, has recently found that this increase in small households is contributing to the loss of plant and animal life around the world. Even when an area’s population is holding steady or declining, Daily says, demand for homes is growing because fewer people are living together under the same roof.
That's bad news for native wildlife, says Daily, because a growing demand for homes is consuming land that would otherwise provide habitat for plants and animals, like Florida's sandhill cranes and loggerhead turtles. And more homes impact the environment in subtle ways, too. For example, Daily says, "You don't buy one fridge per person, you buy one per household." That means more energy is needed to manufacture, deliver, and operate appliances in increasing numbers of small households. And each household needs one of everything, so the effect is far-reaching.
To read more about this amazing research, click onto Heart of America Radio, click on environment and scroll to title Divorce v Environment.