Effects on Earth of Decreasing the Moon's Luminescence

I'm thinking of a world where the earth's moon is densely crowded with dark materials. Solar power plants, dark buildings covered with radiation shielding, large dark open pit mines etc. Imagine that its congested enough with these things, that instead of appearing white it looks black with occasional bright spots indicating the bigger cities when observed with a telescope from earth.

I'm wondering would this darkening of the moon have any consequences for people back on earth other than the loss of moon-lit nights?

Setting is far enough in the future for the technology for large scale moon colonization to be practical, sort of typical of a 'realistic' sci-fi setting.

posted about 7 years ago

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