Guest defense by hello entertainment9/15/2023 And there are so many other things with the darkness that we actually need." But that is, of course, very hard to measure. And somehow this connects us to history and to our forefathers seeing the same stars and things like that. But if we think about it, we want to see these stars. "There is something about the night sky that perhaps we don't realize that we miss it every day. So that's when I started to write a book about darkness." And to animals, to plants and even to ourselves. And when realizing that, I thought that, well, this is not just about bats, it's not about killing bats. So in 30 years' time, half of the bats living in churches is actually gone. Then we started to investigate what happens to the bats, and it turned out they either move or they just starve to death. "And of course, the municipality wants you to show off these buildings and so they put floodlights on them. Well, we have seen some hundreds or even thousand-year-old church buildings. And in the nineties, all the churches started to use floodlights, too. And a few years ago, we realized that, well, that's often lived in churches, at least here in Sweden. I've been doing research on bats for 25 years and being out a lot during the evenings. He emailed me the other day and say, Hey, everybody calls me but about the book. "I'm very often mixed up for this guy in Stockholm, which has he has the same name as me, but he's a marine biologist. On inspiration for The Darkness Manifesto Zach Thompson, dark sky advocate with the International Dark Sky Association in Lincoln, Nebraska. Keith Krueger, Pinal County, Arizona resident and citizen scientist whose neighborhood doesn’t have streetlights.Ĭasey Rodriguez, dark sky advocate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Geoff Goins, visitor services supervisor at New Mexico’s Capulin Volcano National Monument, a certified Dark Sky Park. Also FeaturedĮmily Fobert, research fellow at the University of Melbourne who studies the impact of light pollution on marine species. Author of The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life. Johan Eklöf, scientist and bat researcher. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.Įarth needs darkness just as much as it needs light.īut human light pollution is pushing back the dark, which is changing the natural world, and could be hurting us, too. Facebook Email (Lauren Owens Lambert/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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