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Light pollution can be really scary when you look into it and the more I learn about space the more I am filled with a desire to protect our access to the stars. If we don't act now, we could risk losing the stars for our future generations and that would be a future I would hate to see...
A huge thank you to the Dark Sky Project team for chatting with me during my visit to Lake Tekapo: https://www.darkskyproject.co.nz/
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Chapters:
00:00 You have never seen a dark sky
00:33 Los Angeles Story
01:43 How bad is light pollution?
03:45 BetterHelp
04:59 The Bortle Scale
05:55 Vising the Dark Sky Reserve
07:10 How does New Zealand keep their skies dark?
08:38 Light Pollution vs Astronomy
09:43 Why do people love stargazing?
10:37 Light Pollution vs Human Health
11:14 Light Pollution vs Animals
12:35 Why is this important?
13:52 How can we fix the problem?
15:19 We need the stars
16:05 What did it really look like?
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Additional information sources:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.space.com/light-pollution...
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1...
https://www.un.org/development/desa/e...
https://www.iau.org/static/publicatio...
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