Back to the Dark Ages on Melbourne’s streets

Has anyone noticed that the streets around Melbourne aren’t as bright as they used to be?

That’s because various local councils have been rolling out “energy-efficient” street lights, which cost the tax-payer a fortune, while making our streets significantly darker and hence less safe.

But the councils have come up against a brick wall. They don’t have the funding they need to replace what remains of the older, brighter street lights, that, by the way, are in perfect working order. They need the state and federal governments to put up $40 million dollars of tax-payers money in addition to the $80 million of tax-payers money that they are putting up themselves.

And the state Labor government has actually agreed.

The group promoting this insanity is the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), which represents the collective local councils of Victoria.

It’s all being done under a United Nations treaty, signed and ratified by Australia in the early 1990s, known as Agenda 21, which is a manifesto for sending humanity back to the pre-industrial era, a time when you had to wash your clothes in the local river and the average life expectancy was little more than 30. The Municipal Association of Victoria states on its website:

“Local government has a key role to play in promoting environmental sustainability and taking action that sees the concept incorporated into everyday life. Steps toward this are part of the Local Agenda 21 model and the MAV is helping to push the sustainability agenda further through various council networks, showcase forums and other initiatives.”

 

 

Agenda 21 is very bad news

Now, of course, the MAV claims that the lights provide “better light quality”, whatever that means, but the fact that these things are dangerously dim, is blatantly obvious to anyone who has seen them. MAV claims the new lights use up to 70 per cent less energy than present 80W lighting, but the problem is they cost between $350 and $450 each to replace. This means you are ending up with dimmer streets and increase costs until about 2035, when the whole thing is supposed to break even.

Aren’t we, as human beings, supposed to be improving our living standards? Aren’t we supposed to be making energy cheaper and making our street lights brighter? Isn’t that called progress?

Well no, not according to the United Nations. The UN advocates a post-industrial society and scrawny population sizes. It wants to take us back to the middle ages, when the global population was about 500 million and people lived in absolute squalor. The UN has, from its inception, been radically opposed to technological advancement and capitalism. UN promoters have expressed disdain that the poor peoples of India and China and the rest of the third world would dare act to increase their living standards with the aid of modern technology. Thankfully the UN has, so far, largely been rebuffed by these countries, and Australia should follow their example.