I understand

Politics is "dirty", understandably. But people are mostly decent.

It is the evil powerful hideous people that make politics dirty and life bad

So acting as a decent considerate, loving even, person becomes a political act

Not good, things could be better, but it is what it is

Modern LEDs direct more of their light down, less up to the sky, so yes, much less light pollution

Also they are better suited to their job so need less light.

Sodium lights are nowhere near as flexible so are worse, mostly, on both counts

> Saddam Hussain was a genocidal, fascist lunatic.

Yes.

> The world is certainly a better place with him gone. Even if America didn't handle the subsequent occupation too well, i would argue (and you are free to disagree) that Iraq was still better off.

That is mad talk. Things have been much worse, so much worse for almost everyone in and around Iraq since that war.

ISIS for one thing, was a direct result of the perfidious actions of foreigners in Iraq.

So much chaos was created, there is no way the invasion of Iraq improved the world

Wow!

The comments here!

Are we really such neo-phobe curmudgeons? Sodium hallide street lights preferred over LEDs?

Golly Hacker News, get a grip and join the modern world!

> Curious is there is a single person on the planet that prefers the white (er, purple) street lights?

Yes

One at least, me

(I've never seen this failure mode, so I mean the LEDs)

I especially like the reduction in light pollution