My previous post tying environmentalists to communists has upset a few on the left. Joseph Farah has now tied another global warming idea of banning light bulbs to the communists:
How many socialists does it take to change your light bulb?
Millions.
All over the world – and right here in the U.S. – there is a movement afoot to ban the incandescent light bulb. It's one of the not-so-bright ideas put forward by Al Gore and his Oscar-winning pseudo-documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
If only people would replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs, we're told, we could cut down on energy use and "global warming".
Since socialists know that you are not smart enough to make good choices yourself, they have prepared to make them for you.
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., has already introduced legislation to set dates for banning the bulbs.
This follows action in the European Union, just weeks ago, to phase out incandescent bulbs within two to three years. Australia has taken similar action. Canada is well on the way to a ban. Similar legislation has already been introduced in California Legislature.
But guess where the drive originated?
Fidel Castro started the trend in Communist Cuba two years ago. His buddy in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, beat the rest of the West to the punch by emulating his hero and inspiration in Havana.
Farah also points out this idea will increase another environmental concern:
Well, there is at least one big problem with fluorescent light bulbs – maybe more.
They contain the deadly pollutant mercury. You can't just throw them in your garbage can when they burn out or they will break and contaminate land and water. Instead, you'll find out after this switch is mandated that you have to take the dead bulbs to hazardous-waste sites. Either that, or expensive new recycling programs will have to be instituted. In all likelihood, they will involve gasoline-burning trucks rumbling through your neighborhood and highly trained hazardous-materials teams.
In no time, it will be a criminal offense for you to throw away light bulbs in your garbage can – something you routinely do safely with those obsolete incandescents.
Yet that may not be the only problem with fluorescent lights. Studies have linked them with depression, suicide rates, skin cancer, anxiety, sleep disorders, attention-deficit disorders, electro-magnetic pollution, headaches, eye strain and DNA damage from radiation.
Now, I don't know if those studies are all accurate. I don't know if any of them are true. But I don't think Al Gore does either. I doubt very much if Fidel Castro cares. Because this plot has nothing to do with your well-being. It has nothing to do with heat and light. It has to do with money and power.
Money and power is what the far-left is about.
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