Scientists Warn That The Push For LED Lights Are Not Healthy For Us And The Environment

Earlier this year The WinePress reported that “Biden Bans Traditional Lightbulbs From Being Sold.”

Futurism has more on the story:

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We’ve all heard of the woes of blue light: don’t look at your phone or computer before going to bed, because it’ll make it harder for you to sleep. And according to a new study published Wednesday in Science Advances, that problem may extend beyond your personal beauty sleep to a much larger, environmental scale.

Studying the spectral composition of the continent’s lighting using images captured from the International Space Station, the researchers found that the more energy efficient and higher visibility LED lights are rapidly replacing the old school sodium lights for outdoor use in Europe, bringing with them some unintended but drastic consequences.

Focusing on the suppression of melatonin — the hormone that regulates sleep cycles — star visibility, and insects’ response to light, the researchers found that all categories were negatively affected. The level of melatonin suppression in humans has gone up since 2013, stars are less visible, and the insects’ response to light was unnaturally altered.

This trend is widely increasing the risk of harmful effects to ecosystems.

The researchers state.

Indeed, blue light is widely suspected to suppress the body’s production of melatonin. And with it spilling all across the landscape, it’s not hard to imagine why that may have adverse effects for humans as well as animals, or in the study’s words, “substantial biological impacts.”

But what of LED’s supposed benefits? Are they worth drenching the night in a clinical white? The researchers don’t think so.

“The benefits that LED technology may provide for public lighting, and particularly street lighting, have been much vaunted,” they state, noting that claims of superior energy efficiency over the already fairly efficient sodium lights are “quite context specific,” citing multiple studies.

Sounds like sticking with yellower, warmer lights would be better to illuminate the night without disrupting the local environment. Whether that means sticking with older sodium lights or just switching to warmer LEDs, we’ll have to wait and see.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[21] My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: [22] For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Proverbs 24:21-22

It’s funny because I remember many years ago when I was in elementary school we had this teacher at the planetarium who one year started a communitywide project called “Let their be night,” as a means of trying to reduce the lighting so we could see the stars at night again; and he would shout at us, “when God said ‘Let there be light,’ God was wrong! God was wrong!’ I still remember that to this day. What a loon! But this is typical of atheistic chowderheads like him, who wrongfully charge God for man’s folly and error.

The media does this all the time across all sectors, for years and years on end. I remember when I was younger and mainstream media started pushing people to drink Diet sodas because they were supposedly healthier because of the zero sugar content. And then after the diet pops became the new trend and sales were exploding, then the media comes out and says that the diet sodas are actually worse than the original. Same thing stovetop pans and cooking sets. There seems to be this 3-5 cycle of new Tupperware and cooking apparatus’ after “studies” reveal how toxic they are, but then the sheeple are then goaded into another toxic product.

So too with these LEDs. This isn’t anything groundbreaking, as a growing number of people (such as myself) have been wearing things like bluelight blocking glasses to shield themselves from some of this artificial light. I know if I stare at screens for a short time without wearing my glasses I get a splitting headache, even after I have improved my overall health vastly.

Futurism suggests potentially reverting to the old, but Biden’s executive order – that no one paid attention to – will prevent that moving forward, unless the Senate eventually undoes it, which will most likely never happen.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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