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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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These will never have any meaningful effect unless you can convince an entire city of people they don't need to daylight their yards/streets/closed businesses at night "for safety", and until you can convince an entire planet of businesses their billboards and signs can fuck right off.
There's such an unbelievable amount of light pollution on this planet and 99% of the population is indifferent at best, and actively opposed because they think their lights are "pretty/tasteful/necessary" at worst.
Even if you had a community commit to these lights, all it takes is one distracted driver mowing down a pedestrian crossing the street to send neighbors into a tizzy to get a city council to bring back the 660000 lumen flood lights. Who cares that the car had headlights, the community needs something to blame and played the safety card. Game over.
/rant, sorry about that but I hate light pollution so much and feel like this is always a losing battle. It can be done but fuck people.
I get it, but I have lived in places that would adopt this shit, or have serious 'non-native plant, are we sure its sterile?' concerns be what blocks it.