Paul Bogard's Let There Be Dark

Let There Be Dark The general argument made by Paul Bogard of Los Angeles Times in “Let There Be Dark” is that he wants the people to stop wasting light and diminishing the darkness. In this article, Bogard is suggesting that we should be more conservative when it comes down to light usage and light pollution. To support this argument, Bogard composed and used three techniques, which are quotes, empathy, and questions to lure his reader into complete persuasion. The first technique Bogard uses to change the ways of the people is the use of quotes. He gave statistics such as “400 species of birds” and “The amount of light in the sky increases 6% annually.” Usually the usage of light should never be on unless you are awake and it is night time and you need the light to do a quick thing then go to sleep. People are ignorant enough to …show more content…
It was simply put. He gave examples and ended the 4th paragraph by saying, “Ecological light pollution is like the bulldozer of the night, wrecking habitat and disrupting ecosystems several billions of years in the making. Simply put, without darkness, Earth’s ecology would collapse.” He strikes empathy into the reader’s hearts because no one wants to see animals in dire need of darkness. He talks about how nocturnal animals need the night to be able to hunt, prey, and go back to sleep for the rest of the day until the next evening. He talks about how farmers save billions on pests due to the help of bats preying on those pests. He also talks about how the moths pollinate 80% of the world’s flora. All these animals come out at night and help protect and regulate the ecosystem, and with the light pollution being an obstacle to these animals, we are just digging ourselves a deeper hole. Bogard uses this technique to stir empathy about animals that depend on important things that we confiscate by showing us that our negative input show greater negative