With the artificial light being indispensable to people’s lives today, Paul Bogard asserts that natural darkness should be preserved in the article “Let There Be Dark”. He utilizes personal anecdotes, logical reasoning, rhetorical questions and persuasive appeals to not only reinforce the significance of darkness on human health, ecology, art and energy resources, but also convince his audience to make a difference in reducing light pollution ...
Paul Bogard, the author of Let There be Dark, argued that light is important. He said, “All life evolved to the steady rhythm of bright days and dark nights.” Although light was important, darkness did the same. Bogard often enjoyed the darkness, but he realized the night had shortened and darkness was disappearing. Because of these things, he wrote the article and wanted to spread the message --- dark nights are necessary.
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