Darkness In Paul Bogard's Starry Night

Throughout Paul Bogard's argument, he claims that natural darkness is quite valuable to our own lives and offers a wondrous amount of beauty before us. He starts to build his argument by referencing to a time of his youth of how he viewed the darkness as a child and how astonishing it was to experience. However, he suggests that with today's modern technology with artificial lighting in various towns & cities has caused a great drawback to the amount of natural darkness being preserved. He uses his ability to make the audience seem to relate to today's culture by saying to the audience, "All life evolved to the steady rhythm of bright days and dark nights. Today, though, when we feel the closeness of nightfall, we reach quickly for a light

Bogard then takes a turn in the economic direction for the audience to see how with all the light being used nowadays, it is simply just "wasted energy, which means wasted dollars" due to natural darkness diminishing by the newer generations. To close his argument and fully persuade his audience at this point, Bogard ends by simply stating that there are indeed solutions to this growing problem. He tells his audience many examples of how certain countries are now starting to preserve darkness and controlling the lighting among cities, and states how they make a great impact. He even states how smaller shops and buildings are learning how to not waste much light and let the darkness in more with shorter hours of using unnecessary artificial light. He states that even though these techniques may be used toward saving energy, the reduction in light will also address the problem of "light pollution". However, he closes his overall argument by telling the audience that a the problem stated cannot completely be addressed until the value of darkness becomes fully aware by