This guide, produced by the Montagne de Reims Regional Natural Park, will provide you with a solid foundation on light pollution, its impacts and solutions to reduce it.
Since the 1980s, astronomers have been concerned about the impact of lighting on stargazing. It was only from the 2010s that French legislation began to address the subject with the Grenelles laws, decrees and orders, legislating on excessive light emitted at night.
Light pollution is an essential subject because it is multidisciplinary. It includes diverse topics such as biodiversity conservation, energy savings, human health, politics, and financial savings. Good lighting management has multiple positive impacts.
That said, the night is the victim of preconceived ideas and an ancestral fear of the unknown. Among them, for example, the idea that the absence of lighting rhymes with incivility and burglaries. However, 80% of burglaries take place during the day, and incivility is never exclusively linked to lighting practices, because a bias is always brought about by related subjects.
This guide, produced by the Montagne de Reims Regional Natural Park, will provide you with a solid foundation on light pollution, its impacts and solutions to reduce it.
Let's be optimistic, unlike water and air pollution, light pollution is reversible!