Big Lights, Big Problems By Paul Bogart

Seeing an increase in light pollution and a decrease in natural darkness, Paul Bogard in his essay “Let there be Darkness” uses logic to persuade the reader to preserve darkness. Opening the essay with a personal experience from the past, he convinces the reader of the danger of light pollution. The author uses statistics, pathos, and science to support his thesis.

How can day exist without night; how can night exist without darkness? In Paul Bogard’s, “Let There Be Dark”, Bogard elucidates on the absence of darkness in today’s world. With authenticity, Bogard analyzes the significant elements of darkness in both a rational and factual way. In “Let There Be Dark”, Bogard creates a refined and persuasive analysis using rhetorical appeals to endorse his ideology on preserving Earth’s natural darkness.

In the essay, “Our Vanishing Night”, Verlyn Klinkenborg discusses light pollution. Light pollution is due to human’s use of artificial light during the night. Klinkenborg uses examples of how this type of pollution effects not only humans and their biological clocks, but how it effects other organisms in the wild. In this essay, I will analyze the author argument and aspects of it that includes authority, topic, tone, context, exigence, and audience to determine whether the essay was effective or ineffective in getting Klinkenborg’s argument across to the reader.

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

“Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right”. Discuss.

In today’s society, artificial light is all over the place, wherever we go, there always is artificial light. Some people wish to see true darkness again, and one of those people is Paul Bogard. Paul bogard believes that natural darkness should be preserved and it is our job to make sure it is preserved. He builds a very persuasive essay using his memories and by asking many rhetorical questions to the reader. HE starts his essay of by remembering a time when he saw true darkness, untainted by artificial light. Then he uses facts to show how much the world has changed and how the next generation may never see true darkness. Than he comes back to his emotions and how he felt and that he thinks that we aren’t realizing the worth of true darkness, and if we don’t do something now,

Bogard uses multiple facts and comparisons to show the audience that light pollution has caused many issues ranging from health problems all the way to how light pollution affects the animal kingdom.

In Paul Bogard article, “Let There Be Dark”. The reader gets a look at light pollution. Bogard explain the purpose of his writing when he states, “ We will never truly address the problem of light pollution until we become aware of the irreplaceable value and beauty of the darkness we are losing.” Bogard builds his argument by using pathos, logos, and ethos to persuade his audience that natural darkness should be preserved.

Due to the night's natural darkness loss, writer Paul Bogard argues that natural obscurity should be preserved, in his article "Let there be dark". The author uses anecdotes, evidence - such as organization's quotation and startling facts - and rethorical questions in order to deliver a convincing argument.

Paul Bogard, a professor of creative nonfiction and environmental literature, in his work entitled, “Let There Be Dark” discusses the effects associated of light pollution. Bogard’s purpose is to display the harmful effects on humans and the ecosystems surrounding them due to the increase of light at night and how to solve them. He utilizes pathos, ethos, and logos in order to portray to readers the urgency and negative effects caused by light pollution.

Research from the World Health Organization,American Medical Association, NASA, and Earth's ecology, help the essay be more persuasive and makes the author more reliable. Bogard uses the first two sources in order to show how "...darkness

As the progression and technological advances increase, so will the light pollution. Paul Bogard argued that humans are destroying all the natural darkness. In his article Let There Be Dark, Bogard expresses the importance of darkness by using personal anecdotes, referring to highly accredited organizations, and by eliciting sad feelings and the animals' homes because of humans escapade of technological advancement.

Losing sight of the night sky is an unquantifiable loss to mankind. For all of human history, the vision of the night sky has been an important resource. Our ancestors used the sky for various practices including farming, navigation, and religion. Many of the great minds of philosophy and science were inspired by the patterns and events that occur in the sky. Presently, most people who live in cities can see less than a handful of stars. In order to

Pollution comes in many different forms, in hand conservation does as well. One of the forgotten pollution categories is light pollution. On September 7th of 2016 however, journalist Hasan Chowdhury published an article about the societal, psychological, and physical issues that derive from light pollution. He is a science journalist at New Statesman, which was near to where he got his degree from the University of Manchester. Chowdhury has much experience with conservation and environmental issues. In the past few months, he has published many works pertaining to numerous ecological concerns. In the article “Light Pollution: as we lose sight of the stars, we lose sight of ourselves, author Hasan Chowdhury asserts that light pollution is one of the leading factors of why the human race is losing its humility and that the stars are being dimmed out by artificial light. By employing artful language, providing scientific and statistical evidence, and writing at a time where conservation initiatives are at their peak, Chowdhury promotes the idea of conservation against light pollution. People need to humble down, but they can only do that with seeing the light of the stars.