Comment by pdpi
1 day ago
> Most people didn't care about dark skys in the first place and still don't.
Most people were never given the opportunity to care.
1 day ago
> Most people didn't care about dark skys in the first place and still don't.
Most people were never given the opportunity to care.
Very true, but isn't that exactly what the parent is suggesting? That even a ship full of sailors given the opportunity to care, very few do?
Or are you suggesting that by the time they are in the Navy, it's after the age where one might be most easily encouraged to care?
Mostly the latter.
There's another aspect to it, though — parent was in a navy ship, surrounded by sailors. That's a very specific population, in a very specific situation, and it's not necessarily true that that's the right crowd or situation to care (though it baffles me how a sailor at sea might look up at the stars without being in awe of the thought "damn, my predecessors navigated based on those")