> I wish more people would work on noise pollution
Absolutely agree.
It's one of the most insidious kinds of pollution that has big effects
on mental and cardio-vascular health, and is accumulative.
Everything from aircraft, to emergency vehicle sirens, to construction
and poor housing, is slowly killing people.
In Europe we've actually made big leaps forward with regulation,
building standards for isolation, and abatement laws. But these often
go unenforced or even flippantly dismissed and mocked because people
don't recognise the harm pathways and effects.
Whenever this topic comes up I am reminded of this (very funny)
curmudgeon's screed "On Noise". Although Arthur Schopenhauer was
"serious" about this, his acerbic style only gets more funny with time
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Absolutely agree.
It's one of the most insidious kinds of pollution that has big effects on mental and cardio-vascular health, and is accumulative.
Everything from aircraft, to emergency vehicle sirens, to construction and poor housing, is slowly killing people.
In Europe we've actually made big leaps forward with regulation, building standards for isolation, and abatement laws. But these often go unenforced or even flippantly dismissed and mocked because people don't recognise the harm pathways and effects.
Whenever this topic comes up I am reminded of this (very funny) curmudgeon's screed "On Noise". Although Arthur Schopenhauer was "serious" about this, his acerbic style only gets more funny with time [0].
[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm