"The Flagstaff story earns retelling because it inverts the usual environmental script. There was no crisis, no reckoning, no expensive restoration — just a small law passed early, before the thing it protected was lost, renewed by each generation because the residents could step outside and see what they were saving."

https://spacedaily.com/b-an-arizona-city-passed-the-worlds-first-law-restricting-outdoor-lighting-back-in-1958-to-protect-the-view-from-a-mountaintop-telescope-and-the-accidental-result-is-a-modern-city-of-75000-where-the/

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