Page 162 - Real English 2024 Book 8

REAL ENGLISH 8

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ebb; the sky looks dark but dazzling city lights push the stars into
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oblivion; the twinkling little stars become almost invisible. Instead
of shooting stars, airplanes hoot through the night sky. The noxious
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fumes of speeding vehicles pollute the air, and the honk of traffic

creates noise pollution, whatever the hour of the day.
The immensity of the nocturnal sky is lost to that child. The
moon pales into insignificance as seen through the haze of polluted
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air. In fact, a child who has lived all its life in an apartment block,
from where all it sees is just a patch of the grey sky, is unaware of

the magic of a moonlit night. Light is just a switch away, on the wall.
Night is just an extension of the day, with nothing to differentiate the
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(here) the state of being two. Artificial illumination invades natural darkness. It is said that
unnoticed even an ordinary 60 watt bulb reduces dark-sky visibility by three or
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poisonous four degrees. This generation has been deprived of the dark, starlit
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seems less important sky; this generation is subject to light pollution.
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lighting The seriousness of the problem becomes evident from the
prevented from having satellite light maps of the Earth at night. These maps show parts of
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forced to experience India as bright as the USA or western Europe. And along the coast
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clear ports and resorts appear as pinpricks of light from space.
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results The loss of the night is tragic and the consequences have
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spread pervaded every aspect of our lives, be it health, security, economy,
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