If human history began 12 hours ago, we have been illuminating our nights for 6 minutes…
One in three
people cannot see the Milky Way where they live.
[Dark Sky International]
80%
of humans live under light polluted skies.
In the U.S. & Europe, that number is 99%
[2016 World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness]
Once a universal experience, a true night sky is now a memory most will never have.
We’ve brightened the night and extinguished the cosmos.
9.6%
annual growth rate in light pollution, doubling roughly every 8 years
[Globe At Night]
The stars are still there, we’ve just hidden them from ourselves.
“I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world”
— What a Wonderful world, Louis Armstrong
