Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Why Men Are Worse for the Planet

Posted by BRYAN WALSH Monday, February 21, 2011 at 1:42 pm

A typical man. Credit: Fox
A guest post from TIME's Tara Kelly:
There's a long history of research that reveals women are the greener gender-at least when it comes to their attitudes and preferences. But now a study published by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economics shows that the fairer sex's environmental conscience may actually translate into action too. Put simply, men are worse for the planet than women. While the study found French women emit 32.3 kgs of carbon per day, men compare at a whopping 39.3kg-mainly thanks to a carbon intensive diet and their inefficient use of transport./.../


Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/02/21/why-men-are-worse-for-the-planet/#ixzz1EhAWqYqi

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