Noise Pollution

Hi everybody! It has been a real long time that I have posted on this blog for some Geographic facts and opinions! Today, I would like to share something on noise pollution. Noise pollution was a common term that my teacher would use when in primary school as the class was filled with our chattering. I used to think that it was a joke. However, when I came across the topic of pollution in human Geography, I found out that such a thing really existed! Now, let's go through the definition of Noise Pollution.

Noise pollution is excessive, displeasing human, animal, or machine-created environmental noise that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life.

I have experienced noise pollution when I went for my Secondary Two Camp at Changi Adventure Campsite in Singapore. It was very near to the airport and in every few minutes, an aeroplane would take off and fly pass our campsite. Hence, there were many, MANY occasions where the teachers and instructors had to stop what they were trying to say and wait for the plane to fly past. This surely made the teachers and even the students irritable. However, the worst came when we had to sleep. I was awoken by the planes that were flying past. This is one good example of noise pollution. When all these effects pile up together, you can see that it affects our quality of life. They increase the stress and tension in our lives that our blood pressure may rise.

People living in urban areas experience noise pollution the most as the urban areas have many construction sites and transportation systems. For example, I have been to China and traffic congestions were rather common there. I took nearly two hours just to get to the hotel I needed to get to when a usual timing would just be one hour. During the journey, the traffic moved very slowly and the drivers were all very frustrated. Everybody started honking in the midst of the jam and it was at night. Can you imagine the feelings of the people who lived in the residential areas near there? They must have felt terrible and just as frustrated as the drivers as they cannot get a good night's rest.

There is a rule in Switzerland that nobody is allowed to flush their toilets after eleven o'clock and another rule that says that the airplanes can only arrive at that place only at six in the morning instead of earlier as it creates noise pollution.

From this, we can see that national efforts are put into reducing noise pollution so that the country's people have a better quality of life.

Ace geoggies! Feel free to post any view on noise pollution here! It is very interesting to see how different countries use different methods to prevent noise pollution!

For the next topic, we are moving on to global warming and ozone depletion, a very common topic that is discussed among many people. Some people claim that there is global warming while some people do not! What's your view?

Chrystal :D