Future Society Noise Is The Next Great Public Health Crisis by 74 Cities don’t just get filthy in the visu Cities don’t just get filthy in the visual sense — urban spaces can often be a raging mess of sound. The blaring car horns, the police sirens screaming through the usual waves of traffic, the clatter of passing trains, the constant cacophony of voices rising and falling as a strange melody — this deluge of noise can be devastating to the human psyche. “I think, as a society, we are becoming much more aware of the noise around us,” Scott Sommerfeldt , an engineer at Brigham Young University who specializes in acoustic noise mitigation, tells Futurism. “Excessive noise has detrimental health effects on us, and we’re finally realizing how those effects add up.” By 2100, 84 percent of the world’s estimated 10.8 billion people will likely live in cities . That means noise pollution will bloom in those areas and beyond, in surrounding...
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