Category: Environment

New Light Bulbs? Are You Kidding?

I wish someone would just start telling the truth about these so-called “environment friendly” light bulbs.

Now you people do realize that the new light bulbs contain mercury, right?  If not, then just take a good look at the package it is labeled.  How will the people dispose of the bulbs when they are replaced?  The trash will be a good guess.  If so, then that means that mercury will be put into the US landfill system.  And eventually the mercury will build up in the water table and fianlly infect the food supply.

In case you are interested–mercury poisoning is has an extensive list of problems from psychological to gastro-intestinal.

I have heard that there will be special disposal sites set up so that people will bring in their spent bulbs for disposal.  Think about that…..a culture that lives and dies by a remote and buys salad shooters…just how many will take the time to drop off spent bulbs?  The CFLs are NOT the answer to the energy problem.  let me see if I have this about right?  I use the bulbs to lessen the impact of air pollution while feeding an increase in water pollution.  Sorry, I am not that stupid!  Are you?

Time for the people to wake up! A wonderful thing, energy saving, but everything comes at a price and the CFLs have a price. My question is why would anyone support anything that would have such lasting effects? We settle for short term feel good solutions and the whole time we are poisoning our children’s children. Good plan!

The 800 LB Gorilla

We have heard all the questions and answers and the rants and the raves about the coming climate change or global warming, which you prefer, but there is a deeper problem that few want to knowledge.

It’s the great taboo of environmentalism: the size and growth of the human population.

It has a profound impact on all life on Earth, yet for decades it has been conspicuously absent from public debate.

Most natural scientists agree our growing numbers and our unchecked impact on the natural environment move us inexorably toward global calamities of unthinkable severity.

They agree the need to address population has become desperate.

Yet many environmentalists avoid the subject, a few objecting strongly to any focus on our numbers.

Some activists insist acting to influence population growth infringes on human rights; they maintain that it is best to leave the problem alone.

It is unpopular subject but eventually the cowards will have to address the growing problem.  For too long any decisions on population have been pushed back or ignored completely in the name of political expediency.  This large gorilla is waiting and waiting to jump up and bite the world in the ass.  Unfortunately when that time comes it will be to damn late to do anything about it.  Sooner or later, someone, somewhere will have to make the choices of who lives and who dies….who do you trust to make that decision?