I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  If the government pushes it, run away as fast as you can! My experience is only 56 years, but what I’ve learned in that time is that it is never about you and me or what’s good for us.  It is always about money, power and political clout.  I really only woke up to this fact during the great global warming scam.  As you now know, scientists around the world devised a scheme to launch a new world order, transfer wealth from the west to third world nations and make you line up to pay for it.  Somehow they were able to bully mainstream media into going along with the plan and they even corralled weak politicians everywhere to buy in.  If it had not been for the whistle-blower at East Anglia University, they might have gotten away with it.

But while we are busy prosecuting and jailing the fraudsters involved in that scam, there are collateral issues developing all over the place.  I think that this is going to be a monstrous mess before we’re all done.  One such issue that of the “compact flourescent light bulb.”

In the height of the global warming swindle government and corporations were pressured to respond to energy consumption.  One of the things that was at the front of the charge to conserve energy was the issue around light bulbs.  The global warming alarmists squawked incessantly about traditional light bulbs wasting energy.  The answer, they said, was to replace all incandescent bulbs with the compact fluorescent bulbs.  The contention was that this move would save a bundle in energy costs.

If I can digress for a moment, I would like to point out the logistical flaws in that line of thought.  While it is true that the CFL (compact fluorescent light bulb) requires much less energy to run, there are some things that the alarmists are not considering.

First and foremost is the fact that traditional bulb emits a considerable amount of heat.  Heat is energy.  If you remove that energy (heat) from the space you are trying to light, then you have two choices.  Either put up with the lower temperature, or warm up the space.  Nearly everyone opts to keep their rooms at a comfortable temperature.  So the result is that furnaces and heating sources need to work longer and harder to make up for the lost energy that the bulb were previously emitting.  The end result is that it costs more to run the furnace than the light bulb!  Overall energy bills did not come down as expected.  In fact, they were offset by the rise in heating costs.

But back to the light bulb.  People soon began to complain of health issues.  Some symptoms that people commonly  complained about included:

Mild to severe Headaches (Migraines), Skin Irritation, redness, burning sensations, and or itchiness, Dizziness and Nausea, Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and Earaches, Numbness and Tingling sensations, Tired, Weak and Fatigued, Difficulty Sleeping / Restlessness, Chest Pains / Heart Problems, Poor Memory and Concentration, Irritability, Feelings of Stress and Anxiety, Depression and Mood Swings, Difficulty breathing, Muscle and joint pain, Pain and pressure in the eyes.

I cannot say with any certainty that those symptoms were all caused by the bulb, but they have been attributed to CFLs by a significant number of people.  In my line of work if have found most of those symptoms more related to chronic acidosis than anything else.  People that suffer those ailments are usually acidic.  They typically drink pop/soda, eat lots of acidic foods, and drink tap water or even worse – bottled water.    People who can identify with these issues might want to check out high alkaline diets or read some of the articles on this site that talk about the science of alkalinity.

Regardless of the government opts to do next, you should at the very least educate yourself on this issue.  Watch the video below.  Then take an inventory at your home or work place.  Do you have any of these bulbs?  How do you feel?  Do you have any of these symptoms?