Wednesday, April 24, is International Noise Awareness Day, a global campaign organized by the Center for Hearing and Communication.
Unless or until our hearing is impacted, or we start to feel the accumulated negative impacts from a persistent noise source, we tend to overlook the discomfort and eventual harm to people, animals and ecosystem.
The air and soundscape we share as a community does not belong to any one individual or group. I believe we have a civic and moral obligation to use the public commons in ways that do not distract or injure others. For more information on hearing health practices, check out NoiseAwareness.org.
Nalini Lasiewicz
La Cañada Flintridge
First published in the April 18 print issue of the Outlook Valley Sun.
