Noise pollution is excluded from global environmental rankings for lack of data

Evidence

There is no such thing in the noise category. … Meanwhile, as our cities grow more toxic with noise, and we drift toward a nation of shouters, the sound of our footsteps has all but disappeared. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1627

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: why ‘noise’ is the one environmental harm invisible to every global index — and what dropping it from the metrics reveals about institutional attention.
• XREF: Connects to Zero Decibels’ point that chronic noise is an unrecognized pandemic; both books foreground noise’s invisibility. — connects to: Noise went unrecognized as harm because it could not be measured — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 262; Noise pollution ranks near air pollution as a policy-relevant harm — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1467
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1627

Broader Connections

• Noise went unrecognized as harm because it could not be measured #corroborates (0.85) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 262