Why are more people living alone and what are the consequences for the environment and the economy?

The number of people living in single person households has doubled since 1971.Why are more people living alone and what are the consequences for the environment and the economy? How do ideas in the popular press of the single lifestyle really match reality? In BBC’s Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Laurie Taylor talks to Lynn Jamieson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and to Jan MacVarish from the University of Kent about one of the biggest demographic shifts since World War Two.

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Source: BBC Radio 4