Light Pollution Is Dimming Our View of the Sky, and It's Getting Worse. By Phil Plait - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/light-pollution-is-dimming-our-view-of-the-sky-and-its-getting-worse/

«Citizen scientists and researchers found that we are losing our view of the sky at an astonishing rate of almost 10 percent each year».

#Astronomy #LightPollution

Op Ed from a resident of the area where Cop City would be built:

"The majority [of opposition to Cop City] are in fact local residents, families and children that are opposed to an urban warfare police playground being placed in their neighborhood." https://atlantapresscollective.com/2023/01/27/opinion-deny-apf-their-ldp-rescind-the-land-swap/

It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.”

If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.