Put out your lights!
October 1, 2008
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This is an image of North Korea and South Korea, taken at night. I have to say, it reminds me of that line from Lord of the Rings: “Sauron needs only this ring to cover all the lands in a second darkness.” There is something distinctly…wrong about the way that the normal, night-time lights of modern society simply stop dead at the border between the two Korean states.
And it would appear that the latest enviro-nuttery to rear its ugly head involves calls for other countries to emulate the North Korean example
. Japan is seeing calls for convenience store owners to close earlier and turn out their lights, whilst Britain has for some time now been turning off its street lights at night in Buckinghamshire.
Does the good Reader see a potential problem with that neo-Luddite idea?
Like…say…increased crime rates?
