As awareness of environmental concerns has grown, therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over the extent to which they should change their lives to save the planet.
While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. Friends or family members who are not devoted to the environmental cause can become irritated by life choices they view as ostentatiously self-denying or politically correct.
Because it is irritating. It is as divisive as any political or religious issue. And I bet it becomes personal: you don't care about the Earth, and I'm part of the Earth, so you don't really care about me, because if you cared about me, you'd care about what I care about, and what I care about is morally superior to what you care about . . .
Any surprise this is happening along gender lines?
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Gag. I was in Target this morning buying diapers and passed the new onesies they put out for infants. The ones with a big earth on them that say "I will make a difference." Hard to get along when we are arming newborns to be a part of the battle.
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