For as long as we’ve been human, we’ve looked to the sky to find ourselves. Ever-increasing light pollution threatens not just our sense of identity, but our relationship with the whole biosphere.
long story short, majority of children born today will be able to see the milky day, that is assuming they will be interested in seeing it.
yes, not out of their balcony in the center of 10m megapolis, they will have to take a bus somewhere. poor children living in the middle of rural nowhere may be poor, but “lucky” enough to actually see it from their backyard. i assume there is quite good linear dependence where the really poor people likely don’t have that much light pollution around them and those who do can afford a bus ticket.
that may indeed not be applicable to every person in the world, but the title of this post is making it sound way more dramatic than it actually is.
I think you severely underestimate how many poor children there are that have no economic ability to take trips outside of where they live.
you might be pleasantly surprised that situation is not as bad as we often think.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-living-in-extreme-poverty-cost-of-basic-needs
long story short, majority of children born today will be able to see the milky day, that is assuming they will be interested in seeing it.
yes, not out of their balcony in the center of 10m megapolis, they will have to take a bus somewhere. poor children living in the middle of rural nowhere may be poor, but “lucky” enough to actually see it from their backyard. i assume there is quite good linear dependence where the really poor people likely don’t have that much light pollution around them and those who do can afford a bus ticket.
that may indeed not be applicable to every person in the world, but the title of this post is making it sound way more dramatic than it actually is.