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They show a blatant disregard for the environment, and those responsible for such opinions are part of the problem.

In your uninformed and brainwashed opinion.

If lighting stops crime, explain why it is that during power cuts, criminality drops to zero?

The New York City Blackout of 1977 was a blackout that affected New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. Unlike other blackouts that affected the region, namely the Northeast Blackout of 1965 and the 2003 North America blackout, the 1977 blackout was localized to New York City and the immediate surroundings. It resulted in city-wide looting and other disorder, including arson.

Well, any decline in insects will have a concomitant effect on higher order consumers, and because of this we are now seeing serious declines in spiders, amphibians, reptiles, common birds and small mammals.

Utter bullsh#t.

It is no longer possible to deny that this is having an effect on global warming, and this is not taking into consideration the carbon dioxide emissions produced from the fuel used to keep them going.

Again in your ignorant brainwashed opinion. There is NO OBEJECTIVE PROOF that anthropomorphic global warming has occured. NONE NADA ZILCH.

These curfews are coming because they are an absolute necessity, so the nay-sayers should put up and shut up.

Take your own advice and STFU. Go preach to your Watermellon friends.

The tone of your post is hostile and out of order. I am certainly not brainwashed as my conclusions have been reached as a result of years of observation and research. The evidence is out there in the public domain. As for global warming, that is an undeniable fact. If you refuse to accept it then that’s your problem. There’s none so blind as those who cannot see.

Regarding the New York Blackout and looting, then yes I concede looting was a problem, but it appears to be the exception rather than the rule. In most areas where power failures have occurred, criminality dropped to zero, so we should look to other reasons than the lack of lighting to explain it. I have lived in Dhaka in Bangladesh, that has regular power cuts - at least two a night - yet the level of criminality is low. The New York case may reflect the level of criminality already present in the community concerned, which in the case of New York, is high. Many American cities have homicide levels comparable to whole nations elsewhere. Furthermore, the disorder you mention probably reflected the level of frustration felt by the local residents in deprived communities of being denied basic amenities for an extended period.