POLLUTION

Noise pollution is something that we rarely think about. Just ask yourself when was the last time that all you could hear was total silence. We humans are really a noisy lot. Radio. TV. Trains. Cars. Industry. Aircraft. Games. just to name a few things. Most of these things have come about in just the last few hundred years and some of them in just the last few. We can only try to imagine what our world sounded like back say two hundred years ago. It would have been a much quieter place. I can hear some of you say, "So what?" Then let me ask you a question can you really concentrate on something if there is a lot of noise? Also for those of us that live in cities do you feel comfortable when there is silence? We go for a day's outing to a nice quiet place and then have to either turn on a radio, CD player or plug sound direct into our ears. The norm for many thousands of years has been a quiet earth with just nature mostly supplying the sound. It is my opinion that we should treat noise pollution the same as all other types of pollution and try to limit its impact on us and the environment