"Despite the vast scale of the issue of light pollution, long-term research and widespread knowledge is lacking. I would therefore like to call on all readers to spread awareness about light pollution and related environmental issues that impact communities today. By taking collective action, society can work towards the transformation of the Anthropocene, into a posthumanist era where humans and nature collaborate to build homes in an entangled web of sacred mutualism. We could then create a sustainable world where environmental and animal rights become equal to human ones. This shift in thought may ultimately lead to a shift in action. So we might finally see the sky again."

https://www.diggitmagazine.com/light-pollution-anthropocene-environmental-cost-illumination

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Light pollution in the Anthropocene: the environmental cost of illumination

What do you see, when you look up at the night sky? I grew up in a larger Dutch city and thinking back to early childhood memories, I could just point out the North Star and the Big Dipper in a clear night sky, so seeing little stars was my ‘normal’. I knew there to be more visible stars in t ...

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Can we reach this utopia with western democracy?