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Stop the noise!
When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?

June 25, 2008 | Henry Bean can't stand the sound of burglar alarms. He hates back-up beepers on trucks and bristles when garbage rigs grind up their fetid loads in the middle of the night, the noise reverberating off Manhattan's buildings. But Bean harbors special resentment for the oblivious car owners whose vehicles blare false alarms. "It bothers me that their cars can shout in my ear, not stop shouting, and I can't do anything about it," he says. "My pride can't handle it. I can't exist if I don't fight back in some way, however pathetically or ineffectually."

By Katharine Mieszkowski;
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/25/noise_poll...
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8 responses // Stop the noise!

  • It takes a lots of courage to do what she's doing and I am congratulating her for that! My big thumbs up for Katharine and her ways to educate and call the public to action. That fact is that misinformation makes people very passive and apathetic on acoustic pollution thinking that this is all normal from City Life. Well, you know the say: "On noise issues, you give a hand, they grab your arm, you give your arm, they will knock you down!"
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  • STOP THE NOISE!!!!!
    mjsmith11
  • This is good. Great dig.
    keithponder
  • Noise pollution is a major problem that is not being addressed as much as the other forms of pollution.
    jubal
  • Noise pollution is a major problem. Think a little about the pollution we can't hear. Radio wave, microwave pollution. They are a problem too. Living too close to the powerlines will get you exposed to cancer causing pollution.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Yesterday Cosmo and I had this post crossed in our heads. In this case here is what I think it is the best solution:
    1. Pick up the post that have the best momentum and that means the best number of viewers and votes.
    2. Add your friend as a collaborator thus making from the subject a single post.

    This is a type of action, in my opinion, that make things work. Many times I will not be able to be here and having more than a person interested in the subject of Acoustic Pollution helping to disseminate the news, it is really a blessing.
    Thanks Cosmo!

    Ps: By the way, the original news came from "NoiseOFF," in New York in which I belong to since we had no more than a dozen subscribers. All three persons mentioned in the article, Richard Tur, Dr. Hagler and Dr. Arline Bronzaft, I had the pleasure to meet personally and knowing to have gone to "thicker and thin" events in the past to teach a population often apathetic, misinformed and with lots of misconceptions about noise.
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  • As one prepares to take the exit into the small town in which I reside, there's a sign that reads "Noise laws strictly enforced." Or something similar ... sheesh, I just drove by it on my way home. I guess I've grown to ignore it, as I live on one of the busiest streets in town, and the 'jake brake' polution during the day literally rocks the foundation of my large, built-like-a-brick-shithouse-circa-1925, house similar to one of the small earthquakes I remember enduring while living in San Francisco (nevermind the 'big one').

    Those alleged 'noise laws' must be pretty damned lax. That, or maybe the sign means: "Be as loud as humanly possible or face being ticketed."

    Oh, and my neighbor (or as I refer to him: "crazy gun-toting snowbilly") shooting off his shotgun at 7am ... yeah, that's always a nice jolt outta sleep. Did I mention I work nights and (try to) sleep during the day? (No ... not in a coffin heh heh heh) But really, the amount of snowblowers; snow plows (backing up: "beep beep beep;") lawnmowers; leafblowers; barking dogs; traffic; you flippin' name it.

    I bought myself a white-noise machine, and was using earplugs to boot. That helped. Kinda sounded like I was under water. Zzzzzzzzz sweet Zzzzzzzzz. But now I'm caring (in home) for an aging woman in early dimentia, and such sound blockers are not an option. *sigh*

    Calgon simply cannot take this away.
    Amber_LaStrega
  • I totally sympathise with you and also feel for you! Our Society has become a living corruption and people in the News TV still juggling like clowns going sleep with half of their heads empty and without accomplishing much. The Government became an acoustic violator itself with a part of the public feeding into their corruption by adding some of their own. We are near to a turning point. They cannot complain that they have not been warned about it!
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