All that light pollution is wasting energy AND making you sick

Grist
By Sara BernardOct 23, 2014, 8:23 pm59 pts
If you stood at the heart of Hong Kong in the middle of the night and looked up, the sky would be about 1,000 times brighter than it’d be in the countryside. Not all of us are living in cities that huge, or that utterly blinding — Hong Kong has been dubbed “the most light-polluted city in the…

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