Light pollution (excessive light during night time) is a form of pollution that distresses many people, especially in modern cities. What are the causes of light pollution, and what solutions can you suggest for governments and businesses to take?

 

Light pollution (excessive light during night time) is a form of pollution that distresses many people, especially in modern cities. What are the causes of light pollution, and what solutions can you suggest for governments and businesses to take?

In the contemporary era, a new form of pollution has emerged in urbanised locations owing to the utilisation of lights intensively. This essay shall discuss the reasons behind this phenomenon and render some proposals for the state to surmount this growing issue.

This sort of pollution can be attributed to several factors. The incessantly rising crimes, especially in the metropolitan areas has turned the authorities quite apprehensive by virtue of which they install a plethora of lights to keep streets, alleys and even main roads well illuminated to mitigate the incidents of burglary, mugging and several other horrific crimes which usually takes place during the night. Moreover, the spiralling need to stay in limelight forces companies to slog hard round the clock in order to attain visibility among their targeted audience which  leads them install large well illuminated billboards and their signboards that emanate bright luminescence, and over and above using of intensive lighting to keep the factories well lit to enable the workforce to work and produce day and night to meet/satiate the growing demand. 

Besides this, urbanites are influenced prominently by night life; therefore, they indulge themselves extensively in celebrations, during the night, such as marriages, parties, get-togethers, and so on owing to which they decorate their surroundings with a variety of lights, thereby emitting pollution in great amounts.

However, the panacea for this predicament can only be found by the joint efforts of the policy makers as well as the enterprises. Government should enact laws and escalate police patrolling at night to render secure surroundings to the urbanites exempted from all sorts of offences so that the support of lights can be abandoned and fears overcome. Furthermore, businesses should employ efficient machinery and manpower as well, to accomplish the work during the day time to avoid the hazardous emissions in the form of light. They should also volunteer to limit the number of hours they light up gigantic hoardings and signboards.

To reiterate, I feel even though light pollution, especially in the urban locales  is surely a growing and a worrying problem, it can be mitigated easily, provided that the state as well as companies don the mantle to curb this ecological disaster by deploying appropriate initiatives, and extend a safe environment to the society.