Noise Pollution Report

Noise, we often think of it as part of our everyday life, it’s all around us, and occurs every day. At first thought, it’s absolutely harmless; but how much do we really know? Noise and Noise pollution can actually be very dangerous to people and their ears. It can cause us not to here well or even become deaf. Noise pollution is a type of energy pollution in which distracting, damaging and mostly irritating sounds are freely audible. Noise pollution is not physical pollution, like water pollution were water is polluted but rather, waves that interact with similar waves in the same environment. Sounds are considered noise pollution if they affect/ distract wildlife, human activity or damage physical structures.

Noise pollution can affect’s almost all living creatures, from humans to dogs. But noise pollution affects some more than others. Noise pollution often affects factory workers, which work with large and loud machinery; over years there hearing levels will go down, which means they won’t here normally. Deafness and bad hearing can also occur to soldiers in wars, all the firing, the tanks and bombs will affect their hearing. After a person becomes old and reaches a certain age they will start losing their hearing.

Noise pollution is a serious problem, and there are quite a lot of problems with noise pollution. People who are exposed for a long time, constantly, are going to start having problems with their hearing, and might start losing it. Losing hearing or deafness is not the only problem with noise pollution, noise, can distract people, and irritate them; if a person is focusing or doing something, they can lose their consecration. This is just the beginning of what noise can truly do. Studies showed that there is a direct link between noise pollution and a person’s health. Noise pollution can cause stress related illnesses, high blood pressure, speech interference, sleep disruption and lost productivity. These are most of the components noise pollution interferes with.

Noise pollution is a serious problem but fortunately we have science on our side to help find a solution. We can’t totally prevent noise pollution, but we can find some solutions. First I suggest that all factory workers, wear earphones, wherever there working. Science can help in this by trying to design and make earphones that don’t let sound travel through them; which means the person wearing them doesn’t hear anything. Secondly, I suggest that scientist try reducing the amount of sound loud objects produce. An example of a loud object is a drill; scientists could start making drills that produce less sound.

Even though this sounds pretty easy there are a lot if limitations and benefits. The benefits are that we have advanced technology, and with research and patience we can try achieving these goals. We can start making soundless earphones and machines that produce less sound. Even though science is very powerful but it still can’t solve everything. The first limitation that occurs is that sound is not physical pollution, which means it naturally occurs. And solving a problem which you can’t see is harder solving, then one you can such as water pollution. Second sound will always occur even If we are wearing earphones, we can’t ever totally stop sound.

As you can see sound is much more dangerous that you might have thought but I think with effort, we can start making machines that produce less sound. But until that starts happening I suggest that we should all carry a pair of ear buds in case we go into a loud area.

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