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June 09, 2008

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life. --Jean Arp

Man-Made Noise:
Bernie Krause listens to nature for a living. After having recorded nature for 40 years, he's noticing some alarming -- the natural sound of the world, biophony, is vanishing. Man-made noise is creeping into the most remote regions of Earth and Bernie argues that it's ruining our ecology. Animals divide up the acoustic spectrum so they don't interfere with one another's voices; no two species use the same frequency. So when man-made noise intrudes, certain species lose their ability to synchronize, communicate, and ultimately, survive. [more]

Be The Change:
Reduce your noise footprint. Turn off all your personal gadgets before you go to sleep tonight.


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On Jun 11, 2008 Babatunde Sowunmi writes: Though biologically bad to the body system, but there would not have been any tangible developement in the world without the noise we are talking about.
 
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