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Jun 9, 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.
BE THE CHANGE
Reduce your noise footprint. Turn off all your personal gadgets before you go to sleep tonight.
