A UCLA lecturer and his co-writer join the lunatic viro brigade by castigating 'excessive' use of electric lights.

The authors claim, among other gems that: "Light is a drug, and our 24-hour society abuses it. Humans produce the hormone melatonin in the dark. Without darkness, production is diminished. This partially explains the greater incidence of breast cancer in women who work the night shift and never sleep in complete darkness."

and

"Light pouring into the sky serves no purpose except as a symbol of vanity, like spotlights at a Westwood premiere. Besides, the wasted energy almost surely contributes to air pollution, global warming or other ecological disruption."

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