Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
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Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
After the Gallaudet tour, I could better imagine what that might be like. Sound is a multisensory pleasure because it’s a wave. That’s why it’s something you can feel—the diffusion of its energy from a high concentration to a lower one as it moves through space.
In making the planet brighter and louder, we have also fragmented it. While razing rainforests and bleaching coral reefs, we have also endangered sensory environments. That must now change. We have to save the quiet, and preserve the dark.
Something similar can happen to trees even in the absence of snow, though also on hillsides. In these cases, it is sometimes the ground itself that is sliding extremely slowly down to the valley