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Answer to today's NYT acrostic:
"We have so much artificial light that after an earthquake knocked out
power some residents of Los Angeles called the police to report a
strange giant silvery cloud. It was the milky way they had never seen
before."
David Krandall, "Dream Land"
"As it turns out, there can be too much of a good thing, including
electric lights. Considering the fact that animals, including homo
sapiens, have lived for millions of years without artificial lights, it
comes as no surprise that mother nature can throw us for a loop. The
film shows the toll light pollution takes on animals. Thousands of sea
turtles newly hatched on the Florida coast mistakenly head toward the
city lights rather than the ocean, which they have been programmed
genetically to seek out because of its relative brightness compared to
the land. As an endangered species, the idea that their numbers are
decreasing at an ever greater rate because of shopping mall lights, etc.
makes you reconsider the question of progress."
http://louisproyect.org/2012/01/20/the-city-dark-windfall/
"The City Dark" can be rented on Youtube for $3.99:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5Ty5AQgbQ
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