I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades
but I am also super annoyed by the way it’s framed as “without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is” way more prominently than it’s framed as “hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?”
so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are
The mildest example of what OP’s talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:
This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?
Reblogging this again cause light pollution actually have negative health affects on humans and wildlife. We weren’t meant to live in a world constantly bathed in light.
modern social media should stop offering “sync with your phone contacts to follow them” options and start offering “block all your phone contacts so they never see your account” options
everybody has a love-hate relationship with their hometown. it’s just built into the equation of growing up. im mr. born to run. im mr. thunder fucking road. i gotta get out, i gotta hit the highway, im a road running man, i got the white line fever in my veins. i am gonna run, run, run and im… well im never coming back. i currently live ten minutes from my hometown.
