anybody else seeing an increasing number of purple street lights?
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bluish (due to led manufacturing costs), but haven't seen a lot of purple yet.
The official explanation does make sense: colour coating wears off, revealing the underlying emission spectra of the LED:
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/why-street-lights-cities-turning-purple/
Now, could there be a conspiracy in this?
Well, pretty much 99% of the street lighting and signage LEDs are manufactured in China. Sure, they skimp on everything (quality, control, materials, etc.).
However if you wanted to sell tons of toxic light to western countries, you'd subsidize the sales of LEDs to western countries that were designed and manufactured to start slowly degrading and shift their emission spectrum from less harmful whiteish light to more harmful blue and violet peaks with known harmful biological effects.
Did this happen by design? I doubt it, but I can't prove it.
Interesting lol.
The OG theory was it stops junkies from being able to see a vein.