Household Lighting Destroys our Sky

For those sky-watchers who worry about the environment, having the world go green is not enough. In place of that color it should be dark green. Although light pollution doesn't generally cause as much alarm as other issues such as the changing climate, there is an outspoken community of stargazers that feel this is an important problem that must be worked on and eventually solved.

Our Milky Way is home to hundreds of millions of stars, fewer and fewer of which are observable due to increasing light pollution; not only does light pollution interfere with our experiencing the wonder of our own galaxy, but it also wastes energy. Only one-third of the cities in the United States are dark enough at night for people to see the Milky Way while standing in their backyards.

The Milky way is used by many to gauge the level of visibility in a dark night sky. If you consult an atlas and look at the eastern portion of the US, you will find areas the size of a small country with dark unpolluted skies. It is difficult to find locations to observe the dark in the West.

Security lighting is not only necessary at night, since the majority of property crimes are happening during the daylight hours. In both commercial and residential areas. may not be as important as people think. With Light pollution becoming as serious a threat to us as any other pollution emission, there really needs to be more action taken than just the twenty-seven States that currently have laws on the books about energy lights or lights that are pointing towards our night time sky.

Energy efficiency and pollution control is vitally necessary at the private level as well as a corporate and industrial concern. (including a control of security lighting and snugger window coverings)

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Martha is a freelance journalist writing about blinds.

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