But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.
But keep having obnoxious back up sirens for no reason, forcing deliveries at 5AM with loading dock doors slamming and lift gates whirring, etc