Not sure if this is the most radical, but light pollution has to go or lessen. In urban areas nobody can even see the stars anymore. In my country it is impossible to see the milky way, it was still visible about ten years ago in remote areas.
It also affects trees and plants, stresses out wildlife and just in general is bad. Also pointless energy consumption.
Also ban big ad screens that blink or exist in cities or roadsides.
This is definitely political, but I struggle to think of anything that isn’t.
I will also add the idea of “cities that never sleep” where all lights are still on even if people are literally sleeping. It’s an horrible concept and should be immediately abolished once we overthrow capital. No, I don’t need a lights spectacle every fucking night, once or twice every month is okay but let the city have some darkness ffs. Avoiding visual contamination is important for the well being of people.
Not far from where I live there’s a medium sized LED billboard that is stupidly bright. Like it’s so bright it even hurts my eyes as I pass through that corner at night while on my bycicle. I wish to go full IRA on whoever gave the ok to put such horrendous crime against humanity there. Let people rest their fucking eyes omg.
It does turn itself off by 22pm or something, but christ fuck this shit.
Yeah. Where I live the smaller towns used to have a rule where street lights would turn off at 11pm every night. A few still do. That alone would make a huge difference.
I used to live on an actual island as a kid and that real darkness and those stars I will never forget and will always miss. The sleep you get in real dark (and silence) is just different.
Living in a city now that wants to be very modern and touristy they are ruining everything with lights, even most historic buildings get these stupid huge ad screens attached on them. Everything from bus stops to parks is just bright as day 24/7.
I could also expand this to sound, or car noise. It is so taxing.
Yeah. I feel generations are being robbed of seeing the universe’s beauty. It’s obscene.
I moved a few miles farther away from the major commercial centers a couple years back, and now I at least get a few stars instead of a neverending twilight purple haze at night.
Same. We went to visit the seaside this weekend and someone had built a big luxury housing unit right next to the ocean with these really bright street lights on the yard. The lights blinded the cabins we were in from seeing the night sky and I am sure nobody who lives in that luxury building can see the stars at all. Like why would you decide to go live in a place like that and then just ruin the things that are great about it.
I also feel like the lighting thing has gotten fully out of hand in the last decades with cheap and way too bright led lighting, every little nook and corner is now littered with bright lights. We get northern lights where I live, saw the most pathetic shade of one here last winter after walking to a park where there is a tiny tiny corner of less light and it just made me feel incredibly sad. Like this wonder that should be a part of our experiences as humans gets taken from us and is treated like it’s nothing. We are alienated from darkness and silence both, we would need both I feel.
Not sure if this is the most radical, but light pollution has to go or lessen. In urban areas nobody can even see the stars anymore. In my country it is impossible to see the milky way, it was still visible about ten years ago in remote areas.
It also affects trees and plants, stresses out wildlife and just in general is bad. Also pointless energy consumption.
Also ban big ad screens that blink or exist in cities or roadsides.
This is definitely political, but I struggle to think of anything that isn’t.
I will also add the idea of “cities that never sleep” where all lights are still on even if people are literally sleeping. It’s an horrible concept and should be immediately abolished once we overthrow capital. No, I don’t need a lights spectacle every fucking night, once or twice every month is okay but let the city have some darkness ffs. Avoiding visual contamination is important for the well being of people.
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Not far from where I live there’s a medium sized LED billboard that is stupidly bright. Like it’s so bright it even hurts my eyes as I pass through that corner at night while on my bycicle. I wish to go full IRA on whoever gave the ok to put such horrendous crime against humanity there. Let people rest their fucking eyes omg.
It does turn itself off by 22pm or something, but christ fuck this shit.
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I went to the most remote dark sky certified place in my area to watch the recent meteor shower and the Milky Way was only just barely visible.
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Yeah. Where I live the smaller towns used to have a rule where street lights would turn off at 11pm every night. A few still do. That alone would make a huge difference.
I used to live on an actual island as a kid and that real darkness and those stars I will never forget and will always miss. The sleep you get in real dark (and silence) is just different.
Living in a city now that wants to be very modern and touristy they are ruining everything with lights, even most historic buildings get these stupid huge ad screens attached on them. Everything from bus stops to parks is just bright as day 24/7.
I could also expand this to sound, or car noise. It is so taxing.
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Yeah. I feel generations are being robbed of seeing the universe’s beauty. It’s obscene.
I moved a few miles farther away from the major commercial centers a couple years back, and now I at least get a few stars instead of a neverending twilight purple haze at night.
I miss the stars.
Same. We went to visit the seaside this weekend and someone had built a big luxury housing unit right next to the ocean with these really bright street lights on the yard. The lights blinded the cabins we were in from seeing the night sky and I am sure nobody who lives in that luxury building can see the stars at all. Like why would you decide to go live in a place like that and then just ruin the things that are great about it.
I also feel like the lighting thing has gotten fully out of hand in the last decades with cheap and way too bright led lighting, every little nook and corner is now littered with bright lights. We get northern lights where I live, saw the most pathetic shade of one here last winter after walking to a park where there is a tiny tiny corner of less light and it just made me feel incredibly sad. Like this wonder that should be a part of our experiences as humans gets taken from us and is treated like it’s nothing. We are alienated from darkness and silence both, we would need both I feel.