[eastbound]

Similarly, the installation of public lightening by Colbert in the XVIIIth in Paris, lowered criminality by an order of magnitude.

It also enabled women rights, since, with the ability to somewhat walk securely at night or in the early morning, comes the ability to go to the factory and work somewhere else than in the house.

[aziaziazi]

Some studies found no evidence for an association between crime and switch off or part-night lighting [0]

[0]https://jech.bmj.com/content/69/11/1118.short?g=w_jech_ahead...

[eastbound]

We’ll need more and more of those studies as we switch off those lights to save energy. If it was possible to VC-fund them, that’s where I would put most if my money.