Light Pollution in the World

Since you've already learned about the types of light pollution, I will show you a light pollution from somewhere in the world to show how common the problem of light pollution is. When I was looking for pictures of light pollution on the internet, a certain picture of a city at night caught my eye.

The capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is located in Southeast Asia and is the largest and fastest growing city in Malaysia. I chose to use Kuala Lumpur for my blog because it's not as popular a city like New York City or Miami and it's located somewhere else in the world.

The picture below shows the night skyline of Kuala Lumpur. By just looking at it, you not only see major light pollution, you can easily identify light trepass, over-illumination, and sky glow. Light trepass would be the beams of light coming from the twin towers in the skyline (The Petronas Towers). Over-illumination would be any signs or buildings that do not need the excessive light. Buildings with large and/or bright lights may have this. Sky glow will refer to the glow of light around the city that can be seen for miles.







This picture shows the sky glow from Kuala Lumpur, obviously taken from miles away, you can easily see lights from the city and light trepass from The Petronas Towers located in the city.

Overall, my purpose for this blog entry was to illustrate the problem of light pollution in over parts of the world.