Two teenage soccer players get dropped off at the sports complex. One bag and three balls no other gear.
They have keys.
The keys don’t unlock the goal posts.
Two teenage dimwits kicking balls at the baseball fence outfield past first.
One stopped. The other is kicking against the stone club house. #soundpollution
Africa: The Battle to Quiet the Sea - Can the Shipping Industry Turn Down the Volume?: [UN News] The ocean has never been silent - waves crashing, seabirds calling, whales singing across vast distances. But in recent decades, a new kind of noise has taken hold: the relentless hum of ships. For many marine species, this growing wall of sound is more than a nuisance - it's a threat to their… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLHPzL #OceanConservation #MarineLife #ShippingIndustry #SoundPollution #ProtectOurSeas
In other news... WTF!
Dangerous Low Flying Jets Target More #Tohono #Oodham, #Apache and #Yaqui Communities
via #CensoredNews, Oct 5, 2024
Wild Earth Guardians:
"The Threat: The U.S. Air Force is proposing low-level fighter jet maneuvers and supersonic flights over White Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, and more. It will affect the Tohono O’odham Nation, #WhiteMountain and #SanCarlosApache Nations, and #PascuaYaqui Tribe.
Wilderness and Sacred Places at Risk
The Wilderness areas at risk include the Gila and Blue Range Wildernesses in New Mexico, plus the following Wildernesses in Arizona: Superstition, Salt River Canyon, White Canyon, Needles Eye, Aravaipa Canyon, Galiuro, Santa Teresa, Fishhooks, Bear Wallow, Escudilla, Mount Baldy, Chiracahua, Arrastra Mountains, Tres Alamos, Rawhide Mountains, Harcuvar Mountains, Swansea, East Cactus Plain, Harquahala Mountains, Aubrey Peak, Upper Burro Creek, Hummingbird Springs, Organ Pipe Cactus, Cabeza Prieta, Coyote Mountains, Big Horn Mountains, Baboquivari Peak, and Pajarita Wildernesses. In addition to these 30 designated Wildernesses, this proposal also threatens the Blue Range Primitive Area as well as many Wilderness Study Areas.
Eighteen of these Wildernesses were designated by the 1990 Arizona Desert Wilderness Act, which unfortunately contained a bad special provision that allows military overflights. But that doesn’t mean the proposed action won’t damage those Wildernesses, nor does that 1990 law give the Air Force a free pass to damage the other Wildernesses.
"The Air Force wants to make changes to 10 #MilitaryOperationAreas (#MOAs) to enhance its airspace training capabilities. Specifically, the Air Force wants to lower the altitudes of existing MOAs to support low-altitude training (in some cases, as low as 500 feet above the ground, and in one case, The U.S. Air Force has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that proposes a massive increase in low-level jet training flights in more than 1.2 million acres of designated Wilderness in Arizona and New Mexico. Such activity would shatter the area’s natural sounds, ruin the wilderness experience for visitors, and stress native wildlife.
"Your help is needed by October 9 to tell the Air Force to keep low-altitude jets, sonic booms, and supersonic flights out of these Wildernesses (link below).
"The Air Force also wants to authorize supersonic training at lower altitudes in more MOAs, lower the minimum release altitude for flares, and authorize use of chaff bundles containing up to 5 million #aluminum-coated silica fibers, which are used to obscure radar, and are designed to stay airborne as long as possible before they settle to the ground."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/dangerous-low-flying-jets-target-more.html
Link to Submit Public Comments (#Arizona):
https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/comments/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3ae8a8ee-8716-4497-b5d2-cb08a9bd0157
#ProtectTheWilderness #DefendTheSacred #USAirForce #SoundPollution #AluminumPollution
Petroleum-powered leaf blowers should be illegal. #AirPollution #SoundPollution
Are there any dystopian science fiction tales centered on the subject of sound pollution? There should be.
#soundpollution
🎧 Spannendes Feature, was das Thema Sound im Meer, menschlicher Lärm und Walgesänge zusammenbringt.
#sound #ocean #lärm #walgesang #noisepollution #soundpollution
My area is saturated 24/7 w noise of racing motorcycles, cars modified to be noisier - local, state gov't will do nothing. Can #noisecameras #reduce ‘potentially fatal’ #soundpollution? Every1 knows NYC is loud & politicians have waged long losing war against noise. Now they have new weapon: noise cameras. Cameras which are paired with a #soundmeter to detect noise of at least 85 #decibels from source 50ft. #heathcare #pedestrians #environment #airpollution #streetracing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/04/new-york-noise-cameras
Was in a grocery store recently and noticed myself feeling far more calm and relaxed than usually associated with shopping in said store.
Then they turned the music back on.
Reminded of this today when in a Target where the music was off. Staff were joking and teasing their manager about the sound system not working. ("Oh, no music! This is my jam!")
There was a steady hum from the speakers that would normally be pumping out pop tunes. The hum was, frankly, preferable.
Going to petition the city transportation dept to try and curb dangerous speeding near residential areas. Any advice on what methods would work?
Ideally speeding cameras, but without automated enforcement which my city doesn't seem to do that is probably toothless. Speed bumps near intersections?
#cityplanning
#pedestrian
#safety
#soundpollution
#trafficcalming
