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Marc you are so right about looking up to relieve stress etc. If you put things in perspective most problems are really insignificant in the greater picture and there is no better way to make one realise just how insignificant ones problems are than to gaze up and about and factor is how small one is and here for less than a blink in time.
Darkness and humans stupid paranoid obsession with more and more lights...when in the Gold Coast hospital for my back opperation every night ( various times from midnight to dawn) I would look out my window and observe no cars or people yet lights everywhere...I posted here at the time...so many could be turned off, so many were just too many... areas with eight lights where three would be more than enough..all night..the only beneficiaries are moths...the greatest problem I have with the climate change thing is that all it can focus on is cut fosil fuel ( which clearly hints at a political imperative rather than a genuine concern to save the world) and never is there any call for greater efficiency with public lighting which certainly would make a great impact on cutting omissions. Of course there was the time where they legislated against incandescent lights but clearly that was just a ploy to capitalise on the fear so someone could make a quid if one were yo be entirely cynical...like if you followed thru on that worthwhile step why not reduce public lighting to a sensible level..no excess allowed maybe..I am not even advocating turn them off but only not adopt an over kill.. why put up eight lights when three will do..AND these paranoid fools who think there are scoundrels sneeking about in the shadows wont go out after midnight anyways..
Imagine if we got sensible about lighting the omission reduction that must be or could be achieved..if you could not get 5% down just by a sensible approach to lights I would be surprised...
What we need is to link the over kill in lighting to omissions..make lighting overkill as bad as refusing to make your next car electric...when I was a kid you had one light on in the house ..can you guess which room..the one you were in...now just look around where you live..not only every room on the house but the front and back yards fully bathed in scoundrel deterring light.
Alex
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