Greetings, everyone!
Talking about pollution in our areas, it's what we encounter daily if not one or two. This noise comes from high-intensity sources like hammering, construction, and companies where they operate machines generated by human activities. Like the one I have close to my house in the village, a mill company. Here, there are different machines for different purposes, like grinding cassava and selectors for selecting palm kernels from the shells; this sound is always disruptive because customers are in queues to select palm kernels. The machine selector can be on from morning till night. So we living around that company, 'we no dey hear what'.
Nevertheless, it's difficult for us to hear what our neighbor is saying to us. There was a time when thieves entered our neighborhood and carried people's phones while on power. The owner shouted for help, but nobody could come to her aid because of the intensity of the sound generated by the mill operators. Before we realized it, this woman's property was gone. And it's not a day of noise pollution. It's every day because that place was built for that business. The whole community can't fight the company because it has been of help to everyone in the community who is into the palm oil business. My mother is into oil production, and we do go there to cause noise pollution, too 😂😂. There is nothing we can do than to bear it. The mill industry or company was commissioned for the inhabitants of my community. The best way is for us to vacant since morning and then return at night because that's when the machine will cease to work.
Therefore, when this machine is on, it is used to block people's ears; before you can talk to another person in the mill, you have to shout the person's name due to the loudness of the machines. It could cause headaches to the people walking there and the people living around that environment and inhaling the fumes expelled from the machine could be harmful to the human body. We should be careful.
Another noise pollution I encountered is the traffic noise pollution from the vehicles. My Dad has a computer center on the main road where vehicles pass to and fro. Sometimes, the driver's speed is always annoying as if people aren't there. A child was almost knocked down by a bike at high speed. Unfortunately, the driver fell and hit himself. The speed was too high plus the noise it carries. All these things have consequences on our bodies.
Before we rent an apartment, we must consider the environment, ask questions, walk around, and do an investigation, so we don't end up endangering our health. Our health comes first; if our health is not considered, things will go wrong.
Therefore, we face noise pollution every day, and we can't stop the movement of vehicles that generate noise, and we can't stop machines too. All of these things were meant to be.
This post is in response to the #Hivelearners featured contest week 157 episode 2
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