WHY BOTHER?
Yes, why bother trying to save the Milky Way?
Who cares about starlight?
STARS? Bah, Humbug!!
Just a bunch of little white dots in the sky, right?
Well, I’m sure that’s how some people feel about stars, but... Thing is, most good things are not noticed until they disappear! And folks, the stars are about to disappear from the sky!
Can you see the Milky Way from your yard?
Most likely not. Only about 30% of Americans can now see it! We are the first generation of humans capable, and seemingly willing to destroy starlight. All your ancestors enjoyed the heavens. Eliminating starlight is unacceptable!
For thousands of years our ancestors looked up at night in awe of the consummate darkness and star-slathered sky. But we, you and me, all of us, are on a headlong rush to ruin the night sky with wasteful light pollution.
At the rate starlight’s disappearing now, it’ll be extinct by the year 2020! Gone forever! Invisible! Starlight will be nothing more than white dots on computer screens and phony stars projected on planetarium ceilings!
Remember the little stream you played in as a child? Remember the field, the vacant lot you played in? They’re gone! Developed. Turned to houses, Mall-Warts, etc. That’s what’s ahead for the stars, fast fading and soon to vanish.
There’s still time to act! Start a DARK SKY REVOLUTION where you live!
"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers." --- Joseph Wood Krutch
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