As a blue-eyed office worker who spends far too much time looking at a computer screen, the last thing I need on my way home is a stream of blinding light coming at me.
I’m talking the bright white light of traffic. I know that safety dictates vehicles should be visible in the dark, but there are countries in the EU that insist on a duller light for night driving (blueish). Some drivers seem to have forgotten how to dip their headlights.
Am I the only person who looks at the night sky above cities and wonders what it would be like if we cut back on all that brightness?
Noise pollution got an outing in the courts when a neighbour sued a concert pianist for practicing her instrument for up to 8 hours a day. Mmm…did they really need to involve lawyers. For the cost of a barrister’s opening remarks they could have sound-proofed a room.
As for dumping all the packaging and plastic carrier bags in landfill sites so that the toxins can feed into the groundwater…why not burn that stuff to provide the electricity for nuclear power stations?
That’s my rant finished – I’m off to buy the Guardian in my wooly jumper.
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