Outdoor lighting in America is enough to supply electricity to 35 million homes for a year

The dazzling night lights, thanks to which New York has earned the nickname “the city that never sleeps”, have long been a source of inconvenience for climate activists who demand that they be turned off because they contradict the principle of rationalizing energy consumption.”I think we still have a long way to go before we extract recognition of the reality of the situation in this heavily lit city, namely the blatant waste of energy and its direct reflection on nature,” Raskin Hartley, director of the International Dark Sky Association (IDA), which advocates turning off the lights at night, told the French,”I think we still have a long way to go before extracting recognition of the reality of the situation in this heavily Lit City.According to the US Department of energy, outdoor lighting in the United States consumes enough energy to supply electricity to 35 million homes for a year.It is difficult to get estimates for each city, but it is clear that New York is one of the worst performing cities in this area in the United States, in a country that, according to researchers, wastes much more energy than Europe.Participants at the Climate Week, which concluded on Sunday in New York, discussed a range of environmental topics, from reducing the carbon footprint of food to the role of art in this struggle.This Climate Week annually brings together activists, politicians and business figures to participate in hundreds of events to exchange ideas on ways to address the environmental crisis.