Naturalpath

Does switching light bulbs - from incandescent to companct fluorescent - do any real good? Os this just a feel good salve that won't make a difference?

Well here are the facts - as reported by the Earth Policy Institute and commented at www.treehugger.com.

• If the whole world were to make the switch, 270 500 megawatt coal burning power plants could be closed.
• If the switch happened in the United States alone, we could close 80 global warming sources.

And not suprisingly, other countries are leading the way with real leadership on this no brainer to slow global warming. For example, Austrailia plans to phase out incandscents in favor of compact flourecetns by 2010. And this may be an example of big business lobbying in favor of the public good (of course it will inure to their private benefit). Philips Lighting is advocating that the United States make the mandatory switch by 2016.

That doesn't seem nearly aggressive enough. Isn't this one of those easy measures that scream for a real committment? What do you think?