Question Earthority!

“Banning incandescent light bulbs seems to be all the rage these days, Australia’s gone first, the European Union seems to want to do so and there are various state laws being mulled over at present (see the how many legislators does it take to change a light bulb? bill in California, for example). The assumption is that by banning the incandescents everyone will simply switch over to the compact flourescents and thus Gaia will be appeased and the planet saved. We won’t, therefore, see the end of human civilisation as Bangladesh drowns, the oceans boil and the last human beings barbeque Flipper at the end of times. Or something. However, I’d like to ask one question. Why? Why the banning that is?” (03/29/07)