STUPID ENVIRONMENTAL HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Mother Nature feels the pains of divorce

"A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household," said Jianguo Liu, an ecologist at Michigan State University whose analysis of the environmental impact of divorce appears in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

More households means more use of land, water and energy, three critical resources, Liu explained in a telephone interview.

Now, I'm in favor of traditional families and also in favor of protecting the environment, but to put up a news report on how divorce is bad for the environment is pretty silly.

UPDATE: Here are a couple of other environmental headlines today:

More than 10,000 jet into Bali for global warming conference

Why not a "Global Warming conferences help cause global warming?" headline.

And then there's Coalition sues Land Office over wind farms

What kind of coalition is suing? Why, an environmental coalition, of course.