with warning “noise kills”More than 2,600 associations and national organizations started to mobilize in the awareness campaign. obliges public administrations to comply with laws and decisions against noise pollutiona, given that the situation in Spain “continues to worsen from year to year”.
Campaign warns harmful effects of noise and the need to find solutions According to the statement distributed by the Federation of Associations Against Noise, State Confederation of Neighborhood Associations, Spanish Acoustic Association, Association of Lawyers Against Noise and the Federation against noise pollution, various activities were launched and suggestive posters were distributed. and in the defense of historical heritage.
The idea that alerted these entities was “beyond a simple annoyance”, so “to properly inform the public about the harm that exposure to noise can cause”, It significantly reduces the quality of life, as well as the basic rights of those who are exposed, to the point where it can “kill”.
500 deaths a year in Madrid
It is only in the Community of Madrid that traffic noise appears to be “a variable associated with emergency mental health hospitalizations for all age groups in general” and some 6,000 emergency hospitalizations and nearly 500 deaths each year.
These numbers are “increasing exponentially” across the country.A factor related to problems such as “if we include the remaining sources of noise and acoustic emitters that people experience on a daily basis” dementia, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, depression or absenteeism from work and school, and other problems.
The statement draws attention to another information provided by the World Health Organization that warns: More than a billion young people on the planet are at risk of hearing loss.
For all these reasons, organizations participating in the campaign on April 26, International Noise Awareness Day, taking more measures in this regard by public authorities, to protect “the fundamental rights of citizens, their health and the inviolability of their homes”, including the ratification of specific corporate declarations on the problem of noise pollution.
The proposed central activity for that day was “hold a 60-second moment of silence at 12:00 at a major public place in all citiesAfter the speech titled “Listen to and Aware of Environmental Noise”, the manifesto of this year’s campaign will be read.
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Contact details of the environment department: crisisclimatica@prensaiberica.es
Source: Informacion
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