A couple of my colleagues here at FWW wrote this week about a study from Michigan State University claiming that divorce is bad for the environment, since it means one household becomes two households.

Now, I'm going to skip over the no-brainer element of this, not only because Naomi Dunne and Brian Kilroy have already covered it, but because I read a column with another take on it that I found hilarious.

The columnist wrote a dialogue between a fictional divorcing couple and their children. Mom and dad sit down with the kids for a family dinner and to break the news that they're getting a divorce. And one of the kids is so concerned about the environment that he forgets to get upset that his parents are splitting up. I thought it was pretty effective — as if anyone is going to give a damn about the environment at a time like that. Give this one a read. It's pretty funny.

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