"A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth."
https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938
Apart from destroying earth-based astronomy, boosting satellite collisions, and overpopulating orbital space needed for other purposes, this will be the largest of enclosure of a commons in human history.
It would be like spray-painting graffiti on the walls of the grand canyon, but worse because not everyone has the good fortune to see the walls of the grand canyon. Or like carving Elon Musk's initials in every tree on Earth. Or like destroying silence with an omnipresent 60-cycle hum.
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