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The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)
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The Emotional Effects of Light and Sound Pollution
The final chapter of your book is all about the idea of sensory pollution. That's this concert that we have flooded the world with too much light and too much noie in places where it doesn't belong. A sound pollution drives a lot of animals away from areas that they would otherwise be very happy in. Light at night disturbed polinating insects, migrating birds, hatchling sea turtles - sometimes with fatal results. We don't culturally think of them as problems. Ini we can switch off a lot of sources of light and noise pollution. And then maybe the next time you your hand is going to like, you know, fall back a little bit before the cobweb gets gets regt
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