otforme (Charlie Self) writes:


[...]

paper--when I realized my rural area was suffering from a bit of light
pollution that wasn't here a few years ago.

I think it's these blasted dusk to dawn insurance lights. Every small
church has at least five (insurance companies require them at every
entrance and every obstacle of certain types). Many houses, including
one across the road, and two others a quarter mile up the road, have
one.

We have lost silence to traffic, darkness to fear and stupidity, clean
air and water and space to growth. Is there any hope for a life worth
living left?

THe light problem is really bad, but if you hear retired old ladies
they seem to fear to be raped every five minutes if not every spot on
the steet is bright enough to read very fine print...
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