“Noise is the New Smoking”
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The Noise Project sent a two-page survey regarding noise issues to all three candidates for Providence mayor, as well as all of the ballot-qualified candidates for City Council (including incumbents / those running unopposed). Below are our endorsements in the primary election. After much deliberation, we split our endorsement for mayor between City Council member Nirva LaFortune and … Read more
Noise Project letter to Mayor Elorza* _______________ * Mayor Elorza never acknowledged or responded to our letter.
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.
Frequently refuted deflection: “Cities are noisy” We’ve heard this a lot from noise denialists who try to dismiss or justify excessive, unhealthy, and unnecessary levels of noise — the idea that cities are inherently noisy, and therefore no one who lives in one should either complain about noise or try to do anything about it. … Read more
U.S. environmentalists once opposed noise Policy resolution on noise pollution adopted by the Sierra Club board of directors in 1970* * emphasis added