Yeah. I feel generations are being robbed of seeing the universe's beauty. It's obscene.
I moved a few miles farther away from the major commercial centers a couple years back, and now I at least get a few stars instead of a neverending twilight purple haze at night.
Same. We went to visit the seaside this weekend and someone had built a big luxury housing unit right next to the ocean with these really bright street lights on the yard. The lights blinded the cabins we were in from seeing the night sky and I am sure nobody who lives in that luxury building can see the stars at all. Like why would you decide to go live in a place like that and then just ruin the things that are great about it.
I also feel like the lighting thing has gotten fully out of hand in the last decades with cheap and way too bright led lighting, every little nook and corner is now littered with bright lights. We get northern lights where I live, saw the most pathetic shade of one here last winter after walking to a park where there is a tiny tiny corner of less light and it just made me feel incredibly sad. Like this wonder that should be a part of our experiences as humans gets taken from us and is treated like it's nothing. We are alienated from darkness and silence both, we would need both I feel.
Yeah. I feel generations are being robbed of seeing the universe's beauty. It's obscene.
I moved a few miles farther away from the major commercial centers a couple years back, and now I at least get a few stars instead of a neverending twilight purple haze at night.
I miss the stars.
Same. We went to visit the seaside this weekend and someone had built a big luxury housing unit right next to the ocean with these really bright street lights on the yard. The lights blinded the cabins we were in from seeing the night sky and I am sure nobody who lives in that luxury building can see the stars at all. Like why would you decide to go live in a place like that and then just ruin the things that are great about it.
I also feel like the lighting thing has gotten fully out of hand in the last decades with cheap and way too bright led lighting, every little nook and corner is now littered with bright lights. We get northern lights where I live, saw the most pathetic shade of one here last winter after walking to a park where there is a tiny tiny corner of less light and it just made me feel incredibly sad. Like this wonder that should be a part of our experiences as humans gets taken from us and is treated like it's nothing. We are alienated from darkness and silence both, we would need both I feel.