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When my family complained about lack of street lights at night-time, I said that birds can't sleep. They all thought I was joking, and I kenda went with this story, since they didn't seem to be bothered about wildlife
Like, I kinda get it that turning off the lights at 10:30pm might be annoying and less safe, but realistically.. who the hell drives or even walks at this hours? I mean, people who party do, but that's rare and that's why you have floodlights in cars for, and torches in phones.
At the same time I kinda get it that streetlights would still indeed be safer, and that - in my culture at least - putting animals' welfare near equal to that of humans' is considered weird, if not crazy, so Idk how do I feel about this issue
huh? lots of people are out after 22:30 (10:30 pm is a wild thing to write), especially in any moderately sized city. And the problem isn't generally street lights since they're very much made to shine onto the ground, the problem is any light source that lets light escape into the sky.