| Re: Light bulbs banned
I think another issue is that we have progessively had brighter and brighter interiors over recent years and have become used to that.
If you are over 30 and think back, not that many years ago most people had a centre light fitting with a 60w bulb in it! If you were to try that now your room seems very dinghy indeed. It's a bit like heating - I've noticed if I go into friends houses on mains gas, some of them are stiflingly hot to me, but comfortable for them.
This is why the necessary adjustments are going to hit all of us so hard when there becomes no option but to change our lifestyles I think - basically we've become soft.
A while ago our streetlights went out (we only have 4 where I live anyway) and it was lovely to see a proper starry sky - they could have left them off for me. Who needs them at 2a.m onwards anyway? I often work nights and it's perfectly easy to get into my house without having to have streetlights, yet they burn every night of the year when 90% of the population are in bed anyway! Apart from maybe some junctions and the like, I think over 99% of the streetlights are uneccessary after midnight - but I reckon if they said they would turn them off there would be a flurry of law suits from people falling over & blaming thier councils for not lighting the entire world up at night.... and the way we have become as a society, the courts would back that up!  |