(12-11-2022, 08:02 AM)DISRAELI Wrote: If the problem is centred on industrialised areas of the world, that suggests industry as the root cause. So the conspiratorial aspect of the question should really be the failure to hold industry to account.
To be fair to investigators, the vibrational nature of sound can make it very difficult to identify an exact point of origin. I have party walls with my neighbours on either side. I've discovered more than once that a working drill or other tool can be heard through both walls at the same time, and it's impossible to tell which neighbour is really being the handyman. (And whichever one is not the handyman is probably blaming me) When one of my neighbours is in his garden, his voice "bounces" off hedges in such a way that it seems to come from the other side.
There's a small airport a few miles away from where I live that tests engines daily, this type of 'noise pollution'
is never mentioned as a problem by newspapers because of the same reason you hinted at. As far as sounds
emanating from neighbours, I could do a whole thread on the subject!
But this type of reporting is stereotypical of the media today, there is always articles stating 'One in Five people
suffer with blah-blah-blah', but never do a piece on the positive side of the four who don't!!
Anything to do with a minority is the current trend.
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.