Light
Pollution
I believe that one of the problems that we face today is
light pollution. You can tell where
cities are in the distance by the glow they give off at night. This is a real problem if you want to look at
the stars, as they are blocked by light pollution. Now this can cause some animals to lose their
way when they are trying to navigate at night.
With Island civilization, there would be light pollution in far fewer
locations on the earth, which would mostly solve the problem. Most people don’t even consider light to be
something that can pollute, but in fact it can.
With island civilization we can not solve all of our problems but at
least we can solve enough to hopefully give nature a chance to thrive once
again.
Now to solve the light pollution problem within the
island civilizations we would need to realize that we are creating far more
light than we need. Not only is it wasteful
but it is the main source of light pollution.
If we were to use dimmer lights, we could eliminate this problem even
now possibly. Also, this would save
unimaginable amounts of energy that could be used for much more important
things.
In conclusion, light pollution may not kill us but it is
a problem, a problem that we can solve even now. We can gain so much from lowering our light
output. We have the technology, we just aren’t
using it.
While light pollution is a prominent issue in our current environment, I question the capability of Island Civilization to successfully reduce the problem. Light would assuredly be more sparsely distributed, however, rather than be eliminated entirely, it would simply be heavily concentrated in specific areas. Both light pollution and consumption, addressed in my post, are prevailing concerns that would unquestionably be reduced by Island Civilization, however the quantity of reduction is undetermined.
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