Light pollution doesn't have to be nearly as bad as it is, we're just cheap and callous people. We could have cities and still be able to see a few more stars than the half dozen you might see now. I wonder how many people have never seen the milky way? It's a great big stripe right across the sky you can see with your bare eyes, if someone could kindly turn off their giant fuckin' BUY NOW sign and point the street lights at the street instead of into the sky.

Kids don't get to choose where they move, I think they should be able to see the stars. Just one of many things we're continuing to ruin.

We subdivide so small that people don't have room to grow a single tree now, and the subdivision stretches out over the horizon. We build cities where trees aren't planted. We cover up the sky and the earth alike.

If you do manage to grow a tree, eventually they'll come tell you its now a hazard, cut it down.

Even 'in the country' there is a considerable amount of light pollution-- and per the subject of this article, there is likely to be more there in the future! :)

City vs country is seeing no stars at all or only a couple vs hundreds, but to see thousands you have to be a long way from any kind of development.

I wonder if this was less true a couple decades ago or more-- say, in the mid-1990s. I remember being out on a rural road in northern Wisconsin (about an hour north of Green Bay) where the driver of the car pulled over and turned off the car & lights so I could see the sky. In my memory, at least, there seemed to be thousands visible, along with the Milky Way.