Bright white LED lighting suppresses circadian rhythms in both men and women, reducing fertility. Energy-efficiency programs worldwide fund only bright white LEDs despite warm alternatives being equally cost-effective. The speaker suggests this policy bias may function as population control, and notes bright white LEDs attract insects five times more than incandescent bulbs.
I like to call indoor LED lighting birth control lighting. Because when you inhibit both a man and a woman's circadian biology, your timing systems, it radically lowers fertility. And what's really weird is that in much of the world there are global subsidies for installing energy efficient lighting, and all of them will only pay for bright white lighting, not the warm lighting that you can get for the same cost. And some part of me goes, I wonder if that actually is being used as birth control lighting, because I know for sure that if you stare at a bright white LED in the middle of the night, not only does it mess up your biology, it attracts five times more bugs than the old incandescent lights that we had.
