This letter is from the National Geographic Magazine, March 2009. It’s from comments section about an article called, “The End of Night; Why We Need Darkness“
I’m a resident of the first International Dark Sky City, and so I experience the benefits of the unpolluted night. With a light ordinance, the innate patterns of night and the need for sleep have no intrusions. We need to reduce light pollution not only for astronomy and the preservation of the natural ecosystem, but also for the health of society. Lifestyles increasingly operate 24/7. The sacred retreat of the night is lost, and with constant light infiltration, the human body loses vital rest. We need the balance of night and day just as much as our fellow creatures. Seeing only the benefits of longer workdays and artificially prolonged days ignores the negative consequences and disregards the necessity of darkness. Without night, we would burn ourselves out.
SIERRA ECKERT
Flagstaff, Arizona
Thank You. I need to tell Steve I’m a little bit DIM. I could cut my nightly medication in half. And, If there is a staff person as a reader, I would like to request an outing to see the night sky.
I'm not a politician. I'm not allowed to discuss politics. I have a reading of this letter which I was able to read it after a glance at the FDR directives. Genocide, leadership characteristics, and economic inefficacy were themes contributing to the FDR directives.
In the above letter, did you hold the belief that the World is running out of Oil? The Dark Sky City is a current event or a discussion in a creative form for the reader to realize that about the world. The middle east is not ignoring the facts. We are being told to stop using Oil.
Where is FDR now? Is FDR iterating?