Dialing Down The Noise
Although noise pollution has existed in our society for hundreds of years, it is only within the recent decades that scientists are now suggesting the negative health effects created by noise pollution. There is an alarming amount of research being conducted about how noise pollution can be harmful to people's health. For busy cities like New York and Hong Kong, this can be a huge amount of people being affected by the noise pollution.
It has now been bought to governments to instill new laws and restrictions to help reduce noise pollution. For instance, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, a ban was made in 2008 to disable households to use domestic air conditioners at night as a solution to reduce noise.
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