Light Pollution is a Crime Against Humanity
how seeing the milky way changed how I see everything else
“That was a real turning point in my life”.
That’s what my husband told me last week during a casual conversation about religion and spirituality.
It was a reflection on the first time we ever saw the Milky Way.
And I mean really, fully seeing it—with as much detail as the naked human eye possibly can.
It was while we were on our honeymoon in Zion National Park in 2019. The first time we were in the park was in the dead of night. The intense darkness that engulfed our rental car was the only sense of scale we had for the colossal size of the towering sandstone walls that flanked us as we descended into the canyon.
I poked my head out the passenger-side window to see if I could make out the top of the canyon walls, and as I did, I saw their jagged tops outlined against an impossibly glittery navy sky.
“Oh my …
