Celebrity supporters

Several celebrities are endorsing our light pollution campaign.

Brian May
I remember as a very small child being completely blown away by looking up into the night sky and wondering what it was all about. I think I spent most of my childhood being torn between music and astronomy. I support this campaign because I think particularly kids have a right to see the night sky. We all do, but it certainly pains me to think there are people growing up in this country who may never even see the Milky Way unless they go somewhere else.

Terry Pratchett
As an amateur astronomer as well as a writer, I am driven to fury at the way we so stupidly and wastefully pollute our skies. ... Light pollution is as mindless as Musak, and harder to escape. ... For millennia, mankind marvelled at the stars. Who'd have thought we'd so mindlessly destroy them?

Jeremy Irons
The wonder of the night sky is something which fewer and fewer of us are able to experience. With more thought put into lighting design, we must be able to find a better balance between our fear of the dark and our wonder at the beauty of the night sky.

Joan Bakewell
A bright starlit sky creates in us a sense of awe and wonder at the scale of the universe. Any further encroachment of this precious environment diminishes the nature of what it is to be human.

Sir Patrick Moore
Light pollution is increasing. Unless something is done, future generations may never see the stars.

Libby Purves
The night sky is part of our human inheritance. We are poorer without it.

Prunella Scales
In our carelessness, we have flooded the night sky with light, so that many of us can no longer see the stars. But we can reverse this trend, quickly, cheaply and easily. It's time to bring back the night sky.

Other supporters:

Ralph Fiennes
Sir Roy Strong
Jilly Cooper