This is a really well done article that talks about our night skies – which for the most part are obscured by all the lights we leave on.
http://www.northernvirginiamag.com/entertainment/entertainment-features/2010/10/25/a-stolen-sky
Could we ever return to having dark skies? My generation for the most part has not experienced the real night sky… what we don’t know, we don’t miss, and that is sad.