知道吗你的灯光影响了全球
尽量关掉你房子灯？如果还没这样做，也许你应该行动起来。这个图表显示了二氧化碳排放的危险，以及有多少是由你的灯泡产生的。警告：这个图表中的事实可能会吓跑你，而我认为这就是问题的关键。好了，准备好了吗？站稳了，我们来看看。
That little light bulb you have in the living room is killing the planet. It does not matter if it’s an LED, a CFL, or an incandescent. No matter what it it is, as the graphic shows, it is harming the planet. The reason for this is because, as the popular 80′s band Depeche Mode once declared, everything counts in large amounts. The total yearly amount of CO2 produced by a household with incandescents is a whopping 4.825 tons. Over 35 years, the use of your bulbs will release a great deal of toxic Mercury into the air. The CFLs will release a monstrous 42 mg of toxic mercury into landfills.正是你客厅里的那个小灯泡已经在扼杀这个星球，不管他是LED，节能灯，还是白炽灯。不管是怎么样的灯，正如图表中看到的，正在危害着地球。原因是因为，正如80年代的流行乐队“赶时髦”一度宣称的，一切事物都是积少成多。一个家庭生产如果使用白炽灯每年二氧化碳排量高达4.825吨。 在35年间，你的灯泡会释放大量的有毒汞到空气中。而紧凑型荧光灯（节能灯）则会在垃圾填埋场释放出有毒汞42毫克。
The graphic does not go into a whole lot of depth in terms of how much pollution is being created: it mostly cuts to the chase and doesn’t bog down into details. In order to stop global warming, the world must cut carbon emissions by 70%, and they must do it by 2050 or the planet will become uninhabitable. But what can we do? The graphic presents solutions. About 20% of the world’s energy use comes from lighting. That can be reduced to 40% by something very simple. Making use of an LED light bulb, instead of a different kind.
这个图表没有深入分析有多少污染正在发生：去掉了很多冗余而不拘泥于细节。为了阻止全球变暖，全世界必须减少70％的碳排放，而且必须在2050年前做地到，否则这个星球将为无法居住。然而，我们能做些什么呢？图表呈现了解决方案。世界上20%的能源是用于照明的，这个数字可以通过简单的方法减少到4%，那就是使用LED灯泡取代其他灯泡。
