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Light pollution is the pollution I care about most. Light pollution: not deadly. Air, water, soil pollution: all catastrophically deadly.

thereare5lights 6y ago
> Light pollution: not deadly. The effects may not be as immediately obvious or severe as the other types of pollution, but it is deadly Time to turn off the lights https://www.nature.com/articles/457027a https://www.nature.com/articles/457027a Limiting the impact of light pollution on human health, environment and stellar visibility https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147971100226X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147971... Light pollution as a biodiversity threat. https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20103347944 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20103347944 Light pollution disrupts sleep in free-living animals https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13557 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13557 LIGHT POLLUTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THREATS TO THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS https://search.proquest.com/openview/f2decb732d52abd6837baa7f13bc5868/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1536338 https://search.proquest.com/openview/f2decb732d52abd6837baa7... Understanding, Assessing, and Resolving Light-Pollution Problems on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches http://aquaticcommons.org/115/ http://aquaticcommons.org/115/
- tnorthcutt 6y ago
  Fair, thank you for including sources. I still think it's rather absurd to care more about light pollution than any other kind of pollution.
  - thereare5lights 6y ago
    Yes, it doesn't seem to be urgent or important a concern. But, that's based on our limited observations. Hopefully, that turns out to be true, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more unknown and domino effects that causes light pollution to be just as or nearly as deadly in the long term.
  - jballer 6y ago
    I think it's fair to care about it for precisely the reason that you don't get it. This problem doesn't get as much attention, and is more likely to get worse because of sentiment like this :(
  - simplemen 6y ago
    Why? What should we care about then? Is pollution worse than COVID19? Human trafficking? There are so many problems in this world, we need different people working on different problems.

thereare5lights 6y ago

> Light pollution: not deadly. The effects may not be as immediately obvious or severe as the other types of pollution, but it is deadly Time to turn off the lights https://www.nature.com/articles/457027a https://www.nature.com/articles/457027a Limiting the impact of light pollution on human health, environment and stellar visibility https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147971100226X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147971... Light pollution as a biodiversity threat. https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20103347944 https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20103347944 Light pollution disrupts sleep in free-living animals https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13557 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13557 LIGHT POLLUTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THREATS TO THE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS https://search.proquest.com/openview/f2decb732d52abd6837baa7f13bc5868/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1536338 https://search.proquest.com/openview/f2decb732d52abd6837baa7... Understanding, Assessing, and Resolving Light-Pollution Problems on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches http://aquaticcommons.org/115/ http://aquaticcommons.org/115/

tnorthcutt 6y ago
Fair, thank you for including sources. I still think it's rather absurd to care more about light pollution than any other kind of pollution.
- thereare5lights 6y ago
  Yes, it doesn't seem to be urgent or important a concern. But, that's based on our limited observations. Hopefully, that turns out to be true, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are more unknown and domino effects that causes light pollution to be just as or nearly as deadly in the long term.
- jballer 6y ago
  I think it's fair to care about it for precisely the reason that you don't get it. This problem doesn't get as much attention, and is more likely to get worse because of sentiment like this :(
- simplemen 6y ago
  Why? What should we care about then? Is pollution worse than COVID19? Human trafficking? There are so many problems in this world, we need different people working on different problems.