Green Zeal: renewables and ration packs

The benefits of energy saving light bulbs are well documented – lower carbon emission, higher fertility rates and an increased general well-being across the UK. However, it is at times like this that I link to think of China and is oppressed people.

The safety standards in Chinese factories are often quite bad – particularly those that produce energy saving light bulbs. Contamination from the mercury vapour used in these bulbs has caused the death of over 1 million proletarian workers over the past six years.

An increased appetite for energy saving light bulbs from the West is only set to make this issue worse. The addiction to energy saving light bulbs, lower carbon emissions and moral superiority is predicted to increases supply by 600% over the next year. This in-turn is expected to increase employment by 10m, in the energy saving light bulb industry.

In 2007, in a single factory employing 123 people, a 121 were diagnosed as having dangerously high levels for mercury in their blood. Extrapolating these figures – we should expect over 9.5million cases of mercury poisoning over the next year. From our calculations this will result in over 4 million deaths, in China due to the production of energy saving light bulbs.

Although Green Zeal largely supports the increased production and proliferation of the energy saving light bulbs, we have deep concerns over the number of Chinese deaths which will be the inevitable result of the increased demand for these bulbs.

We therefore suggest that production of these bulbs should be moved to Scotland and Wales. By a reduction in the minimum wage in these areas and the development of energy saving lig bulb hubs, we can expect reduction in carbon emissions, improvements in UK balance of payments (due to increased exports) and tangential social improvements, due to population reductions in Scotland and Wales.

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