Exactly. I'm pretty wary of jumping straight on the latest environmental trends as sometimes we're just trading one bad situation for another and calling it pro

Exactly. I'm pretty wary of jumping straight on the latest environmental trends as sometimes we're just trading one bad situation for another and calling it progress. But I was willing to switch out all my incandescent bulbs for CFLs because it had a pretty major impact on my electric bill. Even though CFLs are an environmental disaster in and of themselves, being filled with mercury. CFLs are fragile and I don't like having to worry about cleaning up mercury spills in my house. For that reason, when LEDs became cost effective and popular, I was all too happy to start the process of replacing burned-out CFLs with new LEDs. There are three ways to motivate people IMO: cost, convenience, and social pressure. All of my neighbors have recycling bins sitting out front so I have one too. I switched to CFLs because they're cheaper to run, and then I switched to LEDs because they're far more convenient. I'd have an electric car, but in my northern climate they're not cost effective, they're really, really not convenient, and none of my friends or neighbors have one. But I have an electric snowblower because it's cheaper and more convenient.