Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Light pollution is fixable. Can researchers and policymakers work together to dim the lights? Really!

Language is revealing! Anyone who associates light with pollution is a horrible demagogue! Again alarmism and hysteria are employed by this science journalist!

There are almost 8 billion humans roaming this planet. Many of our contemporaries still live with inadequate or no light. Thus, light use will rather go up more!

Another obvious attempt to make an elephant out of a fly!

It also appears to be one of those pseudo causes of environmentalism to please the affluent virtue signalers in Western countries.

Lighting is one of the hallmarks of civilization! Enlightenment allowed us to escape the Medieval Ages and superstition behind us.

I suspect this journalist wrote this article while her lights were turned off!

"Huge swaths of the Earth at night are awash in light—from car headlights to streetlamps to office buildings. All those lights are more than just a drain on energy resources. They disrupt the nocturnal behaviors of insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals, as well as the circadian rhythms of daytime species, including humans ..."

Light pollution is fixable. Can researchers and policymakers work together to dim the lights? | PNAS



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