Starship Asterisk*

Light pollution is a terrible issue that affects us all. If you have the kindness in your heart, then sign this petition.

Property developers, and the human race in general, have FAR bigger signatures, and when they put their signatures on checks made out to politicians the lights are lit. (Of course, a bag of cash is far better in those circumstance, not easily traced, you understand.) Why should light pollution have a different outcome than pollution of air and water. We are, as the realists say, 'living in a dangerous time.'

A little education can go a long way. Developers in these parts of the woods are now routinely putting in new "down-lighting" which does just that, it shines downward only. They do this not because they care particularly about clear skies, but because they (and their eventual tenants) only want to pay for the light that does what they want it to do, shine down on walkways and driveways and parking lots and such. Light shining up is simply a waste of money. So educating your local developers and city planners will likely do much more good than signing a petition.

Rob

rstevenson wrote:A little education can go a long way. Developers in these parts of the woods are now routinely putting in new "down-lighting" which does just that, it shines downward only. They do this not because they care particularly about clear skies, but because they (and their eventual tenants) only want to pay for the light that does what they want it to do, shine down on walkways and driveways and parking lots and such. Light shining up is simply a waste of money. So educating your local developers and city planners will likely do much more good than signing a petition.

Rob

People in the UK like to sign petitions.*
Also if this petition gets enough signatures, then it'll get discussed in the House of Commons, which might lead to new laws and rules regarding light that developers might have to adhere to. Again I'm not very political but I'm just a guy that likes to look up at the sky.
*And complain about the weather.

And those darned electrical battery makers just keep coming up with more powerful stuff for flashlights!!!