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Originally Posted by doppler
The sad part is that most of the population is either asleep or indoors at night and all the lights on are just a waste of power. They say a lot of the lighting is for security, but I think that criminals would be a lot more visible if they had to sneak around with torches.
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Security lighting with motion detector is more effective and less light polluting. It is only on when needed and criminals get startled when the light suddenly goes on.
I have three downward shining LED outdoor lights in my garden which are only on for a few minutes when somebody is there, so easy to take something in the backyard, so normally it is dark in my backyard.
When observing, I disable them, which means that they stay out.
As you see in the picture in the article is the part of EU I live in (Netherlands) is one of the worst.
Luckily I am able to travel to darker locations like South Africa and next summer I go to another country (actually a continent in itself) which has only 40 million people with almost the size of the USA and has only 4...5 big heavy light polluting cities.