Dark Sky Quiz Answers
1. Streetlights in bedroom windows? This is the most common complaint I hear about wasteful light pollution. You can fix it with a Dark Sky Revolution!
2. Milky way from horizon to horizon? Only 10% of Americans see the Milky Way stretch across the whole night sky. Fewer than 30% of Americans see the Milky Way at all. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! Start a Dark Sky Revolution!
3. How much money wasted? $5 MILLION every night ($2 BILLION per year) shining wasteful light up into the night sky! Start a Dark Sky Revolution!
4. Driving under lights? No one knows how many accidents occur each night due to wasteful and dangerous nighttime lighting? Dark Sky Revolution!
5. Safety/security and lights? More and brighter lights do NOT create safety and security. Only SMART LIGHTS do that! Start a Dark Sky Revolution!
6. Real or false sense of safety/security? True nighttime security is dependent on SMART LIGHTS, not lots of bright lights! Start a Dark Sky Revolution!
7. A safe, secure lightscape? A lightscape is a work of light art, a community- wide expression of proper lighting--smart lights. Dark Sky Revolution!
8. Advertising light waste? No one knows, but everytime you buy a product part of the cost pays for wasteful advertising lights. Dark Sky Revolution!
9. Lights shine down on people/property? Most lights currently used in communities are NOT smart lights. They shine up not down! Dark Sky Revolution NOW!
10. LIGHT WARS in your community? Many businesses use outrageously bright lights competing for your attention and money! Dark Sky Revolution!
11. Products include cost of lighting? Yes! From manufacturer to retailer to you. We can do better! Start a DARK SKY REVOLUTION TONIGHT!
12. What will you do to spark a dark sky revolution where you live? Read more about my efforts and start a DARK SKY REVOLUTION forthwith!!
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