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The sky is inherently democratic.
夜空，是人類與生俱來的共享資源。
It's accessible, in principle, anyway, by anyone, everywhere, just simply by the act of looking up.
原則上來說，任何人、在任何地方，都可以欣賞夜空的美，你只需輕輕抬頭仰望。
But like so many beautiful things around us, it's slipping away from us,
然而，如同我們身邊很多其它美麗的事物一樣，夜空正在逐漸消逝，
and we haven't even noticed, because we're honestly not really looking.
而我們卻未曾察覺，因為，我們根本看都沒看一眼。
So what do we look at instead? Well, we look at our phones, we look at our computers, we look at screens of all kinds.
那我們看的究竟是什么呢？我們在看手機、玩電腦，我們注視著各種各樣的電子屏幕。
And honestly, we rarely even take the trouble to look up enough to see each other,
說實在的，我們甚至很少費心去抬頭注視彼此，
let alone taking that next step to looking up at the actual sky.
更不要說走出房門、抬頭仰望真正的天空了。
Now, there's a tendency to think that the loss of our dark night skies is the inevitable outcome of progress, change, technology.
越來越多的人認為，夜空的消逝是科技進步、社會發展的必然結果。
And you know, that's just simply not true. Later on, I'll tell you why.
但這并不是真正的原因。接下來，我將告訴你為什么。
But first, I want to tell you about my experience of the dark night sky.
首先，我想給你們講講我自己有關夜空的經歷。
I never saw a truly dark night sky until I was 15. I was here, in Arizona.
我直到十五歲時，才見過真正的夜空。當時，我就在亞利桑那州。
I was on a road trip; I pulled over somewhere. I have no idea where I was, except I know what state.
那是一次旅途，我們在一個地方靠邊停了車。當時除了州名以外，我對身在何處一無所知。
And I looked up, and the sky was just filled with an impossible number of stars.
就那么不經意地抬頭一望，我看到了布滿繁星的夜空！
You see, I'm from New York City, and in New York, you can see the moon, you can see a couple of stars.
想想看，我來自紐約，在那個城市，你只能看到月亮和幾顆“零星”。
More often than not, they turn out to be airplanes when they land.
而且通常當“零星”降落時，你才發現，它們其實是飛機。
