Dark Skies...
I've been on this issue for decades. It's a serious deficiency when the stars are lost to us. Not to mention the ugly repercussions of light pollution and trespass.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4794249.stm
This article from the BBC is a good reference, and makes some of the points I've been arguing for years, ie, that brighter lights don't make the streets or yards more secure. They merely make the shadows darker, and improve the surveillance opportunities for malefactors.
A good slogan for this ongoing concern:
"Light Pollution: It's a Glaring Problem"
By the way, in the US, this Tuesday is Election Day, as most of my readers will already have known :-)
Please get out and VOTE, that is, only if you vote Democratic! We desperately need to clean House and Senate both. The current Republican Congress is a rubber-stamp complicit in the criminal abuse of the Constitution being perpetrated by the current cabal in DC.
Progress for a brighter tomorrow... during the daytime, please!
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