Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blowers
The leaf blower, together with litter in the streets, makes life more depressing than all the atomic bombs in the world combined. Who needs this fire hazard, dirt-maker, noisy thing that vibrates so much you can hear and feel it a block away?
Gardeners are going deaf from them and the public is getting more and more stressful and irritable from all the noise pollution. Most people aren’t even aware consciously that their increased irritability is because of noise.
The Legislature recently killed in committee a bill to at least study noise pollution. Ye Gods, are we that many years away from realizing what a mental health hazard noise pollution really is? And we thought the chain saw was bad! What on earth will they think of next to drive us mad?
A.G. RENSSELAER
Los Angeles
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