Sociologists and psychologists have detected in recent yearsan increase in marital fights over “green issues” like climate change. Specifically, the professor of Environment and Sociology at Drexel University, in the United States, assures that in his doctorate class “the divorce rate is 50%.” In his opinion, “as students progress through the program, their level of awareness about environmental issues increases and as a result, many begin to change their habits, which generates conflict within the marriage.”
According to Bruller, the discussions are not produced by discrepancies regarding the increase in the level of the oceans or whether or not the State should promote the development of clean energies, but on “questions as basic as whether global warming is real or not.” . And that makes it difficult for couples to agree on what car to buy, how to recycle or what food to consume.
Kari Marie Norgaard, professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Washington, USA, is not surprised by the fact that couples argue more about environmental issues. Norgaard highlights as a possible cause the gender difference in the face of the environmental problem . ? Women have a greater concern for the environment than men ,? he says. And it highlights that “a recent study on the different degrees of CO 2 emissions of men and women carried out in Germany showed that the lifestyle that women lead generates fewer emissions.”
