[k99x55]

"Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It" excellent book on ecological damage caused by traffication.

Some insights:

* traffic noise (soundscape pollution) is actually suspected to be the biggest ecological destructor affecting all levels of life from insects, to birds, to mammals.

* Traffic-related noise accounts for over 1 million healthy years of life lost annually to ill health, disability or early death in the western countries in the WHO European Region. (a)

a) https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/30-03-2011-new-evidence...

[frabbit]

That was one of the things I actually liked about Covid lockdowns: the absence of the constant, distant noise of cars and trucks.