If there's one thing that really gets our goat, it's lights left on at night, mocking us from the windows of high rise office towers. You can almost hear them sneering, Sure, go ahead and replace your household bulbs! We'll just suck up all the electricity you're saving. And the stars? Who cares about seeing stars!Look around any urban center and you'll see other light jokes too - flood lights illuminating museums (most of the light goes into the sky), neon signs standing guard above closed retail stores (visual pollution, if nothing else), and billboards, flashing their clever ads inside nearly homes (remember Kramer being tortured by a Kenny Rogers Roasters sign?).
Enough is enough. Turn off the lights, save the power (not to mention the birds), and let the rest of us see the sky.
Image of Earth at night in 2000
Composite satellite image of the Earth at night in 2007
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