#environment concerns

"We are quickly running out of places where darkness still exists. We are entering a new realm of the Anthropocene, one where natural night no longer survives. This is our last chance to see the night sky as it has existed for all of human history, before it is changed forever by man-made satellites, or hidden from human eyes by an impenetrable fortress of artificial light that imprisoned us all in a perpetual, artificial existence."

Laura Shavin: How can we fly without damaging the environment? Hugh Dennis: Catapults! Or, failing that, dragons.