The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780316228794 (0316228796)
Publish date: July 9th 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
The End of Night began well enough, but ultimately it failed to sustain my interest or an overall focus on light pollution. Two of my major complaints were the lack of focus and the lack of science.Largely the author relied on personal observations (his own and a number of people he interviewed) rat...
With chapters counting down the Bortle scale (9 to 1), this book examines levels of darkness in the world. Chapters discuss modern fallacies (light reduces crime!) and the real reasons (adding light is an easy win for politicians; utilities need to sell electricity at night). Some very good discussi...
When I first saw this book, I thought it would be another doomed attempt by an amateur astronomer to convince people that light pollution is bad because the night sky is pretty. And oh, I agree the night sky is beautiful -- I have a lot of star gazing under my belt and I care. But I had pretty muc...
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