Light pollution is caused by inappropriate street lighting, aggressively lighted billboards, monuments and buildings. Unshaded lights shining into outer space consume up to 300% more electricity and funds actually needed for a safelight. Lights disturb the natural biorhythm of flora and fauna's night life, thus terminating the lives of many night-active bugs, birds and plants.
Light pollution is caused by inappropriate street lighting, aggressively lighted billboards, monuments and buildings. Unshaded lights shining into outer space consume up to 300% more electricity and funds actually needed for a safelight. Lights disturb the natural biorhythm of flora and fauna's night life, thus terminating the lives of many night-active bugs, birds and plants.
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Light pollution is caused by inappropriate street lighting, aggressively lighted billboards, monuments and buildings. Unshaded lights shining into outer space consume up to 300% more electricity and funds actually needed for a safelight. Lights disturb the natural biorhythm of flora and fauna's night life, thus terminating the lives of many night-active bugs, birds and plants.
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Light pollution is caused by inappropriate street lighting,
aggressively lighted billboards, monuments and buildings. To decrease and limit the lighting of those structures a decree entitled ‘’Uredba o mejnih vrednostih svetlobnega onesnaževanja okolja’’ has been issued and will take full effect in 2012, until then a five year plan about adapting the public lights was accepted by Slovenian government in 2007. In the mean time, we must face the consequences of light pollution on economy, nature and health.
Economically looking, the consequences are due by the
unshaded lights shining into outer space, consuming up to 300% more electricity and funds actually needed for a safe- light. Thus the use of electricity is 200% above the calculated normal, spending millions of Euros of the tax payers’ money.
The lights disturb the natural biorhythm of flora and fauna’s
night life, thus terminating the lives of many night-active bugs, birds and plants. Heavy street lights cause the death of 100 million birds each year, forcing them to circle around and hit buildings until they are too exhausted to go on.
Night lights also affect the human biological clock, disturbing
the creation of the melatonin hormone, thus creating a health hazard. Melatonin is also known as the ‘’happiness hormone’’, it can only be created in a small part of human brain, while the human is in total darkness and sound asleep. It is a strong antioxidant hormone, that a human body uses for cell maintenance in order to prevent mutations that can lead to breast, intestinal and prostate cancer.
In conclusion, light pollution is a serious matter that will affect
the future of the Earth and its habitants if left unattended; it affects economy, nature and health of everyone on the planet. The dark sky is a treasure we received from our ancestors and it is a part of the planet; in our opinion, it is our duty to preserve it for future generations, while preserving the life on earth as well. Support our cause by getting more informed on: http://www.temnonebo.org/ .