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Not to mention all the junk that private US companies are launching into orbit without being asked.
That's kind of captured by their effect during reentry. I'm assuming you're focusing more on things like light pollution?
Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.
Right now, space is an unmanaged commons. That never works out.