Humans Destroying the Night Sky

In the movie The City Dark, people that care about the earth are concerned and revealing to the world through this documentary that people are destroying nature by using night ligths. Humans are supposed to be the smartest creatures above the earth, but what they chose to do is destroy the earth.  In reality, humans are the ones responsible for the world that we live in.

Before seeing the film, I didn’t realize why the birds were dying every day. I thought they died because they were sick, but I never asked what kind of sickness they have. I was surprised when I saw in the film how every year they found thousands of dead birds that were crashing into buildings. It was fascinating to see the turtles hatch, but it was very sad that more than half of the turtles die because they didn’t make it to the ocean. They were disoriented, following the light of the city instead of the light of the moon in order to find the ocean.

 In the film The City Dark, Ian Cheney says “what do we lose when we lose the night?” I believe that humans need the night sky the same way animals do. While watching the turtles hatch in the film, the newborn turtles use the night light of the moon for guidance to go back to the ocean. The same way the turtles use the night sky is why thousands of animals were created to live at night. As a result, if small animals can follow the night sky when they are just born and humans can feel peace in their heart by watching the night sky it is because it is a connection that society doesn’t realize. I wonder how our ancestors could watch the night sky. They probably had the opportunity to see the sky with a better view and understanding the connection between the night sky and humanity.

The night sky hides a marvelous world, and by seeing the night sky we can remember that people are not the center of the earth, which is more than humanity. The world is full of thousands of different species and some of them are very small that we can hardly see them, like ants, spiders or garden worms. For example, a garden worm is necessary for good soil, the same way thousands of species are in the earth for some reason and we have to learn to share the world with them instead of trying to destroy them. In The City Dark film, Ian Cheney says he felt like he “was at the center of the world.” Humanity is forgetting about how big is the world and are focusing on the wrong things. The world is not composed with only humans. If humanity could just open their eyes and see how big the universe is then they will see how people are like the size of a worm and the earth is like the garden soil compared to the universe.

Overall, after watching the film, I realize that humans are the most danger species on the earth, not the snakes nor the scorpions. Humans are the ones that are working in order to destroy the earth by trying to find happiness in the wrong things. For example, humans are building the glamour of the city with night lights, while forgetting that other species use the light of the stars or the light of the moon for guidance. Also forgetting that behind us there is a generation that is going to need a place to live.