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Edvard:
Yeah, I still do not understand AT ALL why environmentalists would encourage moving away from a standard tungsten filament bulb that has only 5 components (glass, steel, aluminum, tungsten, lead), only one of which is majorly toxic (lead, in the solder), and towards CFL bulbs which contain not only lead (solder for the components on the circuit board inside), but mercury(!) and whatever the handful of components driving the thing are composed of, not to mention the environmental impact of manufacturing all those components, shipping, and assembling, when a filament bulb manufacturer can fabricate most of it's components right in the same factory.
:nono2:

Thanks for the references, I'll be looking those up later.  :Thmbsup:

Shades:
Problem is also that most of the younger generations don't know any better anymore. They are actually used to
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Over here in Paraguay it is really bad. Common household appliances are discarded even when the internal fuse has blown. Rich, middle-class and poor people do this. There are still quite some electronic repair shops in the suburbs of Asuncion.

I tried to explain the idiocy of this way of thinking to several people here over time and each time I am greeted with the same apathetic stare. Most of the people here actually just want to buy new stuff. Even if they to go in debt for it.

Luckily, me getting a kick out of repairing something still outdoes the sadness that creeps up on me when I think of where the younger generations are heading.

TaoPhoenix:
In some senses some of the nasty Zynga games do that digitally by making you have to upkeep your farms and whatever - you can't just have a nice little farm, you have to keep maintaining it. Then you get sucked into a grind because of all the previous time you spent, so you can't bear to "have that part of your life go to waste".

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