Lights Out

I wrote quite a long post here about Light pollution & energy consumption which linked into my assertion that there’s not enough darkness in the world. The premise of it was, to turn out street lights and it is possibly coming to pass with councils starting to turn lights out. OK it is a cost cutting drive but that was also a major part of my posts and if done right, in the right areas its only going to be a benefit. This article posted on the BBC News website entitled “Why are English councils turning off street lights?” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzkgxr22po.amp seems to indicate that councils are either starting to switch off between specific hours or dimming both of which are good. I travel a lot and the number of roads I drive on across Europe which are dark compared to here is incredible. Our world is built on consumption of energy and short sightedly pushing people into electric cars is not the answer for either global warming, light pollution or energy consumption.

Again if we are serious about the planet about making a difference the conversation must widen into more realistic and achievable areas.