This article discusses how the natural environment is changing due to the increase of manmade noise levels. Not only is noise in general bad for your health, but it is bad for the overall environment.
“…Across the world – as our numbers swell, as nations get more urbanized, and societies become more technology-dependent – we humans are getting noisier. “Among environmental factors in Europe, environmental noise leads to a disease burden that is second in magnitude only to that from air pollution,” says a 2011 World Health Organization report. In the United States, noise is now the number one neighborhood complaint, beating out crime and traffic, according to the American Housing Survey conducted by the US Census. There have been incidents of noise conflicts leading to violence and even murder…”
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Noise isn’t just annoying, it’s bad for your health
Salon.com
By: Maureen Nandini Mitra
March 4, 2013
Article link, please visit this site: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/noise_isnt_just_annoying_its_bad_for_your_health_partner/