THE NEW YORK TIMES CELEBRATES THE CANCELATION OF THOMAS EDISON:
by Pamela Paul
We knew the day was coming when the lights would go out. As of Aug. 1, the Biden administration’s regulations.. will make it awfully hard — if not impossible — for the old Edison bulb to pass muster. Intellectually, I’m on board. The more environmental regulations this country can impose, the better.My own microcontribution is an array of… eco-diktats... I try to force. I am forever turning out lights when people momentarily leave a room. I wash and reuse Ziploc bags until they no longer zip, and I enlist all stray bags into litter box duty. I am a manic recycler of paper...
But... LED bulbs, with their unnatural froideur and their sour green aura… come with labels like soft white and bright white, cool white and daylight. It’s all nonsense.
The morose cast of the LED bulb.. with its grim hue supplying the gray to barely finished basements… Devoid of passion. Institutional…
Things illuminated by LED (human beings, for example) also look bad, sullen, even villainous. There is little hygge to be found in an LED-lit home.
George W. Bush... intended to wipe out incandescent bulbs within 10 years… Until last Tuesday, old-fashioned bulbs continued to be available… A few may still be. Run!
Or simply succumb to the waning incandescence. Wait it out until fireplace season. Cling to the good news that... We’ll always have candlelight.
