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GLENN:
I hate fluorescent light bulbs, hate them with everything in me. Hate
them, hate them, hate them. My kids, I'm not burying food. You know,
Bill O'Reilly was like, oh, he's storing up food and burying food in
the backyard. Nope, you know what I have buried in the backyard?
Incandescent light bulbs. George W. Bush as a Christmas present to you
and me, he banned incandescent light bulbs, 2012, 2013 you are not
going to have the incandescent light bulb anymore. And I want to thank
him from the bottom of my heart. I hate that ugly sterile light. They
suck all the happiness and joy out of your life and also they're a pain
in the ass to get rid of. If you break one, we showed this on TV the
other day. If you break one, I mean, it is a 12‑step process to get rid
of it. You just don't sweep it up because it has Mercury. Now, I've
hated it because it's a pain in the neck, it doesn't solve global
warming, they are ugly. You name it, they are being forced on us. I
don't want them. But I had no idea that they were actually killing
people. Did you know that? Green Hell today, our Inconvenient Book
comes out, is it today in paperback? And there's a new chapter and it's
a very good chapter. Kind of an update on everything. This was a best
seller for I don't even know, 25 weeks or something like that on the
New York Times best seller list and it's a great book, and it's out in
paperback. But anyway, we wanted to do an inconvenient update for you
on green energy and light bulbs. Who knew that they were actually
killing people? Steve Milloy is with us. He's the author of Green Hell:
How Environmentalists Plan to Take Control of Your Life and What You
Can Do Stop Them. Hello, Steve.
MILLOY: Hey, Glenn, thanks for having me.
GLENN: I had no idea that they were killing people. How are they killing people?
MILLOY: Well, apparently all these bulbs were made in China. We
used to make the incandescents in Kentucky but can't co‑that anymore.
So we make these compact fluorescents in China where there are
basically no occupational standards, safety standards and it turns out
that more than 90%, more than 90% of the Chinese workers making these
bulbs have been poisoned with Mercury because you can't make these
bulbs without Mercury.
GLENN: How do you mean ‑‑ 90% of the workers in China been poisoned with Mercury?
MILLOY: Right. 90% of the workers have been poisoned so badly that they have to be hospitalized.
GLENN: How are they being poisoned?
MILLOY: Well, they just work, you know, they work with Mercury.
Mercury is a, you know, a toxic substance in high enough doses and
these guys are, you know, putting the Mercury in the bulbs and
apparently, you know, they don't do it in a very safe way. They must
almost I guess handle the Mercury with their hands, I guess, and ‑‑
GLENN: Do you think it's possible that maybe they are waiting for
us to sign the Kyoto treaty before they start handling Mercury properly?
MILLOY: I don't know. You know, China's got a long way to go in
terms of environmental protection and occupational safety laws and, you
know, right now we're saving the planet but killing the Chinese
GLENN: We're not saving the planet. I'd actually consider ‑‑ I
wouldn't do it but I'd consider it. I mean, I can't take it. You know,
I was in the Bush White House in the oval office and I think I may have
been the only person that's ever done about, but he turned around for a
second and, you know, you just don't want to say, so George, what's in
the lamp? What kind of lights do you have? So as he turned around, I
looked into the shade and it was one of those stupid curly light bulbs.
I swear to you if the secret service weren't there, I would have taken
a lamp, I would have! Thrown it at the fireplace, Mr. President. But
the secret service was there. So I backed off.
MILLOY:
You know, these bulbs are expensive, they don't work because they are
made with cheap components, they are poisoning workers, they are
actually ‑‑
GLENN: Yeah, but they're Chinese. Al Gore doesn't care about the
Chinese. They don't count. They have more. We'll make more Chinese.
MILLOY: Yeah. I guess, you know, that's ‑‑ with the DDT ban, you
know, we killed all the poor Africans, no one cares about them, they
can't see them.
GLENN: Yeah. Okay, so I'm interested because you say, and what you
can do to stop them, that's in the title of the book, and what you can
do to stop them. All right, go ahead.
MILLOY: Well, I think that people first need to educate
themselves. This is not about the environment. This is about the left
social and political agenda. You need to grab your politicians, local,
state, federal by the lapel, shake them until they understand it and
people need to get active. While we come home at the end of the day,
spend time with our families, have dinner, the greens are out there at
those city council meetings, county council meetings, planning
commission meetings announcing their agenda and the politicians only
see them. You know, we start to make a change with the tea parties, you
know, we talked about this before. We need to have green tea parties
where people, you know, protest that, you know, the cap and tax that's
coming down the road, you know, President Obama wants to put smart
meters on our house to ration electricity to us, you know, in the
hottest day of the year when you set your thermostat at 72, you know,
President Obama through your local utilities is going to reset it to
82. Now, if you want that kind of stuff to happen, you know, don't ‑‑
keep doing what you're doing, but I think that ‑‑
GLENN: People say that that's ‑‑ people say all the time, Steve,
that that is ridiculous, that that's never going to happen. I mean,
what is it going to take besides it actually happening for people to
understand this is what they're going to do? They are going to regulate
the temperature in your house for the common good.
MILLOY: Glenn, I have wasted the last 13 years trying to educate
people on the science behind the green movement. They haven't taken to
that. So now I'm going, well, this is what they're going to do to your
lifestyle and they're going to tell you where to live, how many
children you can have, where you can work, what kind of car you can
drive, how much energy you can use, what kind of food you can eat, how
much water you can have, what kind of toilet paper you can use, I mean,
they are regulating light bulbs in your house. If people don't
understand, then I guess they are going to have to experience it.
GLENN: So Steve, I'm doing a piece tonight on GE and actually
ACORN as well and I'm trying to track down all the more than of ACORN
and I'm finding all these front organizations, and it's stunning the
corruption that is going on and no one is looking for it, nobody wants
to find it, nobody wants to see it because everybody is in on making
money. When it comes to the green movement, tonight I'm also doing a
segment that we started just producing this morning. I saw some of the
pieces of it this morning that, you know, you have Jeffrey Immelt
coming out and saying about healthcare and green that he's so excited
because the future is all about a Fusion of industry and business with
the government.
MILLOY: Right.
GLENN: And it's going to be great.
MILLOY: Right now ‑‑ well see, you know, and the thing is Jeffrey
Immelt, he wants government laws to make people buy his windmills. He
wants government laws that, you know, get healthcare off his back
because he doesn't want to pay for healthcare for his workers. He would
rather have the government do or the taxpayer.
GLENN: But also GE health ‑‑ I mean, GE is going to get so
unbelievably wealthy from the federal dollars being spent on GE
products.
MILLOY: It's the corpocracy. And this is another thing that people
‑‑ you know, I used to be against antitrust. I think that, you know, we
need more antitrust now. We need to split up these big companies
because they're cozying up with the government. It's terrible.
GLENN: Objection, Steve, thank you very much. I'll talk to you
again. He's the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to
Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.
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