Turn off ‘look at me’ outside house lights to cut pollution

From: Brian H Sheridan, Lodge Moor, Sheffield.
Halifax town centre at dusk. Picture: Adobe StockHalifax town centre at dusk. Picture: Adobe Stock
Halifax town centre at dusk. Picture: Adobe Stock

GBR Fisher rightly questions the practice of totally illuminating properties unnecessarily (The Yorkshire Post, March 9).

During the wartime blackout we somehow managed without street lighting and vehicle lights.

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I clearly recall a tense but necessary night journey between Sheffield and Doncaster in my uncle’s Morris car.

The air raid warden’s cry of “Put that light out” was a nightly feature.

Nobody would want to go back to those days, but sadly we have come to take the monumental harnessing of electricity for granted.

I confess to having a small, intermittent front light which works on sensors.

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However, illuminating the exterior of the whole of one’s house is simply an act of vanity; it screams out “Look at us”.

Those who do so are the people who feel the need to 
have the most spectacular Christmas lights in the neighbourhood.

In these times when we need to conserve energy, like your correspondent, I would like to see these show-offs reined in, if not by law then by some forceful publicity.

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