Aren't you forgetting something?
Any mandatory changes to consumer behavior is going to rankle some critics. But looking back in history, most become widely accepted and appreciated in time for their wide benefits to society. Think of leaded gasoline, radium dinner plates, mercury thermometers, seat belts and child-proof containers. A few decades from now, people may look back on incandescent light bulbs as relics so inefficient that they are dangerous.
Like the 5mg of Mercury in those CFL lightbulbs? Yeah, we'll be saving a lot of electricity, right as we dump literally tons of Mercury into the soil and water supply. You know people won't recycle these things, and even when recycling efforts get ramped up years after this ban and people realize the danger these CFL lightbulbs pose to public health, most people will still have a hard time recycling for a long time. That still does us no good when it comes to the millions of these bulbs that are already sitting in landfills.
Sometimes I think they are trying, they just do not have the sciences down that they claim to use as their source and cannot seem to grasp histories continued lessons regarding unintended consequences. Sometimes it looks like they (the greens) are actually sabotaging their "interests". And sometimes, it doesn't look like they know at all what they are talking about. The only thing that seems to be sure within and without their movement, human life takes second place. For me, this is evil.
I created an analogy for a liberal friend of mine. I asked her to imagine that we were seeds in an apple. Then imagine that some large portion of us seeds became green. That green group decided that, to spare the apple rot, some of us had to go. Then I asked, how can many of the applications of the green movement be natural in such a thing? I think it accurately describes the scenario.
Personally, I just attribute it to them being too stupid to understand the Law of Unintended Consequences.