Light Pollution - and the return of the night

Who wants to look at stars – who needs astronomy? – when there's a "sports complex with a driving range and multi-purpose dome" nearby, burning with floodlights and halogens, incandescent in the American night? Who wants constellations when you can watch a "billboard on Route 22 in Wingdale, New York that is lit by a dedicated floodlight"? Who, after all, wants to put up with something called nighttime?