From 2012 to the become mandatory in the EU, to only be allowed to buy energy saving bulbs. This will supposedly 5 million tonnes of CO2 could be saved. What the politicians and environmentalists tell us not, however, this change is directed, on balance, more harm than good, because include lamps mercury, and so is the environment in China, where most of the lamps are produced, but also with us in use and subsequent disposal heavily burdened by a bad poison.
but we want to leave aside the fact that the CO2 from man not responsible for global warming and this action is based on a gigantic lie and brainwashing, mercury is a toxic heavy metal that even at room temperature evaporates and the vapors are inhaled highly toxic.
According to a press release of 15 January 2009 the Ministry of Environment decided in Sweden, the use of mercury ban in general. The ban means that the use of amalgam in dental fillings is set and that mercury-containing products may no longer be marketed in Sweden. On the other hand, include bringing alleged fluorescent lamps or "energy saving light bulbs' mercury as ignition function for the gas to glow.
How does this conflict with the principles of environmental protection together?
mercury is considered by all health authorities, the World Health risk recognized. If it accumulates in the body, it damages the nervous system, lungs and kidneys. Especially babies in the womb during pregnancy are vulnerable to this poison.
The risk of mercury poisoning is to get through energy-saving lamps illustrated by the fact that say the British authorities when bursts such a lamp in the household, then you should use the space at least ventilate for 15 minutes because of the risk of inhalation of the resulting mercury vapor.
energy saving lamps have a limited life. You eventually need to be disposed of. If there is only this type of lamp and millions returned by consumers for disposal will be a huge problem on our hands. What happens to the mercury and how to avoid injury to the workers and the environment in the disassembly and separation of materials? This is expensive if you do it right, and the process will consume much energy.
Where as the gain in energy balance?
And who dispose of used lamps not working properly, but just throw in the garbage or throw in the landscape, causing even more pollution from the escaping mercury. As if the Mediterranean countries and the new EU member states in the east to keep proper disposal. One must only look to Naples as the garbage piles up there in the streets. It is ridiculous to believe, but are selling their old energy-saving light bulbs a good boy.
The whole program has been designed not thought through and by idiots, fanatics of typical EU bureaucrats and planetary saviors who can not count to two, who see the big picture not to sell it but as an important environmental protection measure and force us to this nonsense.
But the problems already start in the production. Many workers in China have been poisoned by mercury, because the increase in demand by the EU's policy to make it the duty of the reopening of abandoned mercury mines has led, the health of the workers and the Environmentally ruined there.
two-thirds of all energy saving lamps for the EU are produced in China. The health authorities have established the presence of an alarming increase of mercury poisoning caused by an industry that sells itself as an environmentally friendly with their lamps, but uses a highly toxic poison in large quantities and placed in the environment.
The production of energy saving lamps, the workers must handle mercury either in liquid or solid form, because something like this be used in each lamp needs. Documents of the Chinese Ministry of Health show that the mercury poisoning has increased in the lamp factories.
"Pregnant women and mothers breastfed their babies not allowed to work in departments where mercury is present, "prescribes the Public Health Act.
In southern China where the energy-saving light bulbs are manufactured for the Western consumer, there are big factories that include global corporations, to backyard farms with few employees, so a big difference to health and safety standards.
tests on hundreds of workers have shown unsafe levels of mercury in the body and many need medical treatment, according to interviews conducted with physicians and local health authorities in Foshan and Guangzhou. Many of the workers have high levels of mercury in their urine, but are afraid to do so little.
"In tests measured the mercury content in my blood and urine is too high, but I was not sent to the hospital because my boss said I was strong and my immune system would eliminate the poison by itself," said a young worker.
"Two of my friends were admitted to the hospital for two months," she added.
"If they ask me to work in the mercury department, I refuse, no matter how much they pay me for it," said another young workers.
In some factories in Foshan, such as the Nanhai Feiyang Lamp factory, were diagnosed from 72 workers 68 with severe poisoning.
But the problems go much further. The workers in the mines where mercury is mined are much worse off. Until recently, the states in the Middle Ages. The miners have hit the boulders by hand from the rock around the vermilion or Zinnabarit as well as means to win the primary source of mercury. The workers have completely unprotected in the dust and fumes inhaled.
and the surrounding farming is also damaged. An affected farmer said: "Thousands of miners came to our country, dug and used chemicals to clean the ore. Our water buffalo were tired of drinking the water and our harvest was gray. Our people were ill and did not live very long. All that can be cut down. "
The government has closed in recent years, the mercury mines, because the rivers poisoned, polluted the land and the people were sick. But with the new demand for mercury for the energy saving lamps, due to the laws of the EU, the mines reopened, and the miners are coming back.
in Tongren, a town where mercury is produced for generations, "said an old worker where the locals have toiled day and night to recover the liquid metal from the bottom of the days.
"I have 40 years working in a mine, and now my body is totally sick and my lungs are destroyed," he said.
Whatever suffering and destruction, the mass conversion to energy-saving lamps in China caused by Europe, and the risk of poisoning in the home with the application, can only be described as a crime. Environmentalists and the behavior of the EU dictators are forcing us to change, which means a Verschlimmbesserung highest level, at the expense of the health of Chinese workers and even our own.
And what they were intended to save energy or electricity, is viewed holistically as a lie, because of the larger Energy consumption and demand for manufacturing, disposal and because the lamps, thanks to globalization and exploitation of cheap labor have to be transported across even the whole world.
also save these lamps only in continuous operation compared to incandescent bulbs, such as at an outside lighting. If they are switched off and on how things go in practice, they break too fast, that does not fit lamps. Or should we let it burn in the home for 24 hours, the light, so the savings will be effective? They have not all.
Text: Copyright by Freeman
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