Climate Change Thread

[Husar]

I am. But not to defend "consumer choice".

It's not the Soviet era. No one is going to be stealing incandescents to push on the black market.

Exactly, because they are not produced or imported anymore.
As for the legalization, what if the consumer makes a stupid choice?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732004/
Is drug abuse to combat stress a choice a homo oeconomicus would make?
The "ultimate freedom" is anarchy, but only few people want it.

My reason to adhere to incandescents is not economic - I just don't like the twinkling kind of light ESLs emit. It feels uncomfortable and hospital-like.

ESLs? You probably mean CFLs - Compact Fluorescent Lights.
That's also a strawman or whatever because there are LEDs.

Is using incandescents as harmful for human health as heroin and causes similar addiction?
Can you kill someone when you use incandescents like you can with a gun?
Your comparisons are invalid.

Yes.
Yes.
No.

You should see how fast people run to find some incandescents on batteries when the lights go out at night.
If you inhale the exhaust fumes produced while powering an incandescent with fossil fuels for a year, you'll probably not be able to aim your gun before you drop to the floor.
You just need to think a bit further than the immediate circumstances, electric energy does not just come out of nowhere.

There are many other things which harm nature even more and they are not banned. Why aren't plastic, gasoline, nuclear power plants banned?

But that's what I just said in the part you quoted, we shouldn't stop at light bulbs, it has to be a slippery slope where we ban plastics or at least plastic waste, nuclear energy, coal and gas power plants, cars running on fossil fuels, having babies, overfishing, and so on.
Note that I did not say we should do it right now and destroy everything we built up, see the lightbulbs as a first babystep.

Make the planet great again!

My solution is apply economic factors to oust something which you consider harmful (make it more expensive) - but not outright ban it. Especially in case of incandescents whose perilous influence upon nature is waaaaaay smaller than oil extraction or exhaust gas pollution. And ESLs, btw, which contain mercury.

Exactly, that's why I switched CFLs for LEDs as soon as I could...
I haven't bought a new CFL in a long time and don't plan to do so ever again.
CFLs are just a distraction argument for people who missed or omit the existence of LEDs.