Noise denialists dismiss efforts to address excessive and deliberate vehicle noise as an illusory issue targeting drivers more than vehicles, but it pre-dates most of those making such deflective claims by decades.
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“Cities are noisy”
We hear this a lot from noise denialists who try to dismiss or justify excessive, unnecessary, and unhealthy levels of noise — the idea that cities are inherently noisy, and therefore no one who lives in one should ever complain about noise or try to do anything about it. According to this rationale, any level … Read more
American environmentalists used to fight noise
U.S. environmentalists used to fight noise Policy resolution on noise pollution adopted by the Sierra Club board of directors in 1970* * emphasis added
Boston Globe article: Noise report-cards for Boston neighborhoods
Noise Report Cards for Boston Neighborhoods By Kevin Hartnett (Boston Globe, Oct. 23, 2016) — Noise is an inconvenience of city living. Could it also hurt your health? Erica Walker, a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, set out to help answer that question. For a year, she measured noise … Read more