Week of wonder: In defense of darkness

On Point | Podcast

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4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

WBUR's On Point brings you a 'Week of wonder': A curation of shows from the past year reveling in the wonder of the world we live in.

In Episode I: Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. Human light pollution is pushing back the dark, which is changing the natural world, and could be hurting us, too. Johan Eklöf joined Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:00.0	I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is on point.
0:06.0	Hi, this is a good headboard.
0:08.0	It's out here over Mott.
0:10.0	I'm a shore of Lake Champlain.
0:14.0	It's just about midnight.
0:21.0	The moon is rising up through the trees
0:24.0	and there's still a few constellations.
0:30.0	You can see stars.
0:34.0	It's really clear night.
0:36.0	It's the first time in a few nights.
0:38.0	It's really clear.
0:40.0	The geese just come back.
0:42.0	So can you hear them here and there?
0:44.0	But otherwise it's really quiet.
0:48.0	It's beautiful.
0:50.0	It's green.
0:54.0	That was ingrid headboard in South Hero Vermont.
0:58.0	And this is Casey Rodriguez in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1:02.0	So I recently started a night shift job.
1:06.0	A retail place, second shelves.
1:10.0	It's about 3am.
1:12.0	I'm sitting in a strip mall parking lot.
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