Just yesterday, a couple of beards went out of their hopeless huts, and openly voiced their displeasure about yet another brilliant human invention - The light bulb! Bear in mind however, that these are the same insufferable imbeciles that emerged two years ago with the bold claim that street lighting has to be removed, in order to improve the living habitat for the almost extinct bat population.
Now they set about making assertions that artificial light in cities creates a phenomenon also known as ''light pollution''. To me personally, this made up term is a ''phenomenon'' in the same way that ''Ebola'' is a cure for cancer. Their argument is that artificial light disrupts the human organism, and causes insomnia. It is also argued that this same light confuses insects and therefore kills them soon after. Now, I am sorry, but if the first statement were true, then 66% of the world's population was going to look like Sarah Bernhard. We don't however resemble crackheads with sleeping disorders, since we use a simple invention also known as a CURTAIN!
Let me give you an example. There is a football pitch just opposite my apartment, and every night its massive zillion gigawatt lamps illuminate the playground with rays of light so bright, that everything in a radius of two kilometers is turned to ashes. Do I complain? No I do not, because quite frankly I am aware that it is jolly hard to play football in the dark, and so I resort to using my curtains.
At this point, I would like you to imagine what the world would be if we were governed by brainless eco-mentalists and Health and Safety personnel? These days human progress is brought to a halt because pretty much everything we come up with, is either dangerous, non-ethical or is polluting the environment. Where do you think would we be, if the Russians were not allowed to send their dog Laika in space because some fat slob from an unknown animal protectionist NGO claimed that this was an act of cruelty? In a world controlled by tree hugging country do-gooders, there would be no infrastructure, and no war, which means that we wouldn't have invented so much of the modern amenities we take for granted. We wouldn't have the computer as we know it, the jet engine, velcro, the internet, SUVs, Stockings and Twinkies, just to name a few. We also wouldn't have VW, Porsche and Jeep.
Seriously! I won't be surprised if swimming pools get outlawed because they posses a drowning hazard. The Greenpeace stated sometime ago that we should keep the world as it is, otherwise we shall all be doomed... I am sorry, but the last time someone was that wrong, he was standing beside an airplane at Croydon airport in 1938 waving a piece of paper around. The world is meant to evolve, and so is the climate. Species are meant to go extinct, and languages are meant to disappear and/or change. Whoever thinks that we shall save the world by eating lettuce and driving silly plastic electric cars, is as thick as a bowl of creme of wheat porridge! We just need to let mother nature sort itself out, because we wrongly deduce that humans are influential enough to make a big change.
And as for the second statement regarding the insects... PUH-LEASE... I really can't fathom how can someone be worried about a fly, rather than the human life that can be endangered if our cities are to be nothing but pitch black concrete jungles? Do you know how much I care about flies and mosquitoes? I think I'd actually have a better sleeping experience if they were not around. Scientists these days seem to be in a constant state of PMT, and I would strongly advice them to bugger off back to their cowsheds!
Now they set about making assertions that artificial light in cities creates a phenomenon also known as ''light pollution''. To me personally, this made up term is a ''phenomenon'' in the same way that ''Ebola'' is a cure for cancer. Their argument is that artificial light disrupts the human organism, and causes insomnia. It is also argued that this same light confuses insects and therefore kills them soon after. Now, I am sorry, but if the first statement were true, then 66% of the world's population was going to look like Sarah Bernhard. We don't however resemble crackheads with sleeping disorders, since we use a simple invention also known as a CURTAIN!
Let me give you an example. There is a football pitch just opposite my apartment, and every night its massive zillion gigawatt lamps illuminate the playground with rays of light so bright, that everything in a radius of two kilometers is turned to ashes. Do I complain? No I do not, because quite frankly I am aware that it is jolly hard to play football in the dark, and so I resort to using my curtains.
At this point, I would like you to imagine what the world would be if we were governed by brainless eco-mentalists and Health and Safety personnel? These days human progress is brought to a halt because pretty much everything we come up with, is either dangerous, non-ethical or is polluting the environment. Where do you think would we be, if the Russians were not allowed to send their dog Laika in space because some fat slob from an unknown animal protectionist NGO claimed that this was an act of cruelty? In a world controlled by tree hugging country do-gooders, there would be no infrastructure, and no war, which means that we wouldn't have invented so much of the modern amenities we take for granted. We wouldn't have the computer as we know it, the jet engine, velcro, the internet, SUVs, Stockings and Twinkies, just to name a few. We also wouldn't have VW, Porsche and Jeep.
Seriously! I won't be surprised if swimming pools get outlawed because they posses a drowning hazard. The Greenpeace stated sometime ago that we should keep the world as it is, otherwise we shall all be doomed... I am sorry, but the last time someone was that wrong, he was standing beside an airplane at Croydon airport in 1938 waving a piece of paper around. The world is meant to evolve, and so is the climate. Species are meant to go extinct, and languages are meant to disappear and/or change. Whoever thinks that we shall save the world by eating lettuce and driving silly plastic electric cars, is as thick as a bowl of creme of wheat porridge! We just need to let mother nature sort itself out, because we wrongly deduce that humans are influential enough to make a big change.
And as for the second statement regarding the insects... PUH-LEASE... I really can't fathom how can someone be worried about a fly, rather than the human life that can be endangered if our cities are to be nothing but pitch black concrete jungles? Do you know how much I care about flies and mosquitoes? I think I'd actually have a better sleeping experience if they were not around. Scientists these days seem to be in a constant state of PMT, and I would strongly advice them to bugger off back to their cowsheds!
