I appreciate your response. Sadly, I think light pollution is one of the more tame harms we've done to this planet. There's stuff going on right now that's a lo

I appreciate your response. Sadly, I think light pollution is one of the more tame harms we've done to this planet. There's stuff going on right now that's a lot more egregious (one which I think is going to be inevitable is the damage done by Hydrofracing, since we're not even sure of the extent). To your second point, I wasn't implying that we're even that efficient or optimized as a society - we hugely discount the negative externalities of our actions like you mentioned. What bothers me is the mentality surrounding it all. The Einstein quote pops into mind - "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age." In that sense, we are relentless in our pursuit of the next hot thing without asking ourselves what it will do for our collective happiness and joy in 10, 20, or god forbid 100 years from now.