[LMB] (now OT: textile machinery

[Rachel Ganz]

> But only relatively.  It's almost impossible to find a place truly
> without automobile noise, but think of that, refrigerator noise, 60
> cycle whines, computer fans, on and on and *on*---there's still a lotta
> low-level noise, and like other low-level pollutants I don't think most
> people have much sense of how these have subtle, injurious impacts.

The other thing that people don't notice until it is removed is the smell of petrol. I spent a week on a car-free island (Lundy, in the Bristol channel), and arriving back on the North Devon coast in the early morning, I was struck by how much the air smelt of petrol/diesel/exhaust fumes.

Rachel Ganz

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