īogard argues against the long-held assumption of a correlation between bright light and reduced crime, citing research that finds no such link.
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Bogard ultimately finds a Bortle level 1 environment: a remote area so perfectly free of stray light that, with eyes fully adapted, the Milky Way casts noticeable shadows. He experiences firsthand the deleterious effects of night shift work, talks with a former prison inmate about the psychological effects of uninterrupted light, and shares his own fear of the dark. He visits locations throughout the continental US, as well as Florence, the Canary Islands, and the isle of Sark, in his quest to understand the nature of light pollution. He explores the nighttime landscapes of London and Paris, and examines the planning, or lack thereof, in each city's lighting. Bogard has said of the scale, invented in 2001, "one of the reasons why identifying different depths of darkness is so important is that we don’t recognize that we’re losing it, unless we have a name to recognize it by." īogard begins at a Bortle level 9 environment, by the Luxor Sky Beam, the brightest spotlight on Earth, located on the Las Vegas Strip. The nine chapters of Bogard's book map to the nine levels of the Bortle scale, which attempts to quantify the subjective brightness and suitability for astronomy of the sky in different environments. The book has been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Bogard examines the effects of this loss on human physical and mental health, society, and ecosystems, and how it might be mitigated. The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light is a 2013 non-fiction book by Paul Bogard on the gradual disappearance, due to light pollution, of true darkness from the night skies of most people on the planet.
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