THE SOLUTION TO LIGHT POLLUTION

ASTRONOMERS (and nonastronomers): It's time to make up your mind. Are you going to TINKER or TRANSFORM? Are you going to continue to tinker around the margins of the light pollution problem--the present International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) strategy--and continue to fail, or are you going to transform your approach and succeed?

There’s only one REAL solution to light pollution: Turn off lights--permanently!

NOT ALL LIGHTS, OBVIOUSLY, BUT MOST LIGHTS.

This is NOT about tinkering. This is about transforming how we enlighten ourselves and each other! So, what's it going to be: TINKER and fail? OR TRANSFORM and get on with it!?

Most outdoor nighttime lights in America are ineffectual and ineffective. They waste money and energy, contribute to climate change, and distract drivers, causing accidents that injure and kill family members.

Tinkering is NOT a solution to the light pollution problem! More than 300 million business lights, city lights, and street lights shine all night, every night, across America, and thousands more are being added as you read this sentence. Most of them shine up, out and all about, erasing starlight. All of us have a right to starlight!

At least 50% of all nighttime lighting in America is useless and frivolous, creates NO safety and security for people and property, and actually creates more danger and damage than no lights at all.

Tonight is the perfect time to turn off 50% or more of America’s outdoor nighttime lights permanently, the reasons to do so are undeniable and unassailable, and the results are beneficial and profitable to everyone!

So what's it going to be: TINKER OR TRANSFORM?

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