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Light pollution is an issue and is targeting darkness all over the world. Slowly, darkness will soon be consumed by light, leaving ecosystems destroyed. Paul Bogard uses rhetorical devices such as logical appeal, diction, and rhetorical questioning to explain and make his readers realize how important darkness is to the world.
The author remind his readers that light pollution is growing rapidly and, “Too little darkness” is big “Trouble for all”. Paul Bogard’s presentation of facts and evidence supports the claim that follows at the end of paragraph three that "without darkness, Earth's ecology would collapse." Bogard uses rhetorical questioning to persuade his audience that natural darkness preservation is essential. He asks his audience


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