Light Pollution Quotes

“Tribute in Light...onlookers often notice small flecks, dancing amid the beams like gentle flurries of snow. Those flecks are birds. Thousands of them.
This annual ritual unfortunately occurs within the autumn migratory season, when billions of small songbirds undergo long flights through North American skies. Warblers and other small species congregate within the light. The circle slowly...they call frequently and intensely. They occasionally crash into nearby buildings.
But that's just one source of light among many... Almost 7 million birds a year die in the U.S and Canada after flying into communication towers.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“Tribute in Light'...onlookers often notice small flecks, dancing amid the beams like gentle flurries of snow. Those flecks are birds. Thousands of them.
This annual ritual unfortunately occurs within the autumn migratory season, when billions of small songbirds undergo long flights through North American skies.
Warblers and other small species congregate within the light. They circle slowly...they call frequently and intensely. They occasionally crash into nearby buildings.
But that's just one source of light among many... Almost 7 million birds a year die in the U.S and Canada after flying into communication towers.”
― Ed Yong

“Tribute in Light...onlookers often notice small flecks, dancing amid the beams like gentle flurries of snow. Those flecks are birds. Thousands of them.
This annual ritual unfortunately occurs within the autumn migratory season, when billions of small songbirds undergo long flights through North American skies.
Warblers and other small species congregate within the light. They circle slowly...they call frequently and intensely. They occasionally crash into nearby buildings.
But that's just one source of light among many... Almost 7 million birds a year die in the U.S and Canada after flying into communication towers.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“We normalize the abnormal, and accept the unacceptable. Remember that more than 80 percent of people live under light polluted skies, and two-thirds of Europeans are immersed in noise equivalent to constant rainfall. Many people have no idea what true darkness or quiet feels like.

Within that inexperience, vicious cycles begin to spin. As we desecrate sensory environments, we become accustomed to the results. As we push the animals away, we get used to their absence. As the problems of sensory pollution grow, our willingness to address it subsides. How do we solve a problem that we don’t realize exists?”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us