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Determining the high levels of loud music today can be done with special equipment to measure the decibels that surround us each day. From factory noise to the avid concert go-er, noise has reached dangerous high level proportions. Loud noise can affect our moods and hearing, thus affecting our balance and ability to communicate with others. Concert musicians such as Ted Nugent realize these hazards when taking the stage and came out prepared to battle the enormous noise levels that his type of music his band produced. Wearing ear plugs with built in microphones to help him keep things in sync while on stage. This has become a necessity in the music world today and for good reason.

In the younger generation, they close themselves up in their cars and turn the volume up. The high decibels of noise in the cars may attract attention from the out side world but the sound effect is killing their hearing. I do not condemn loud music and I use to listen to loud music too. I was ignorant in my younger years and also thought I would live forever as most teens today think. What good is life if you damage your hearing? It will be a very quiet world that you live in for sure. Hearing loss can not be repaired and once it is lost, it is gone forever.

It was only through my education in the work place, that I realized that once you loose your hearing, it is gone for ever and your hearing only gets worse from that point on. Young people should know these dangers to their hearing. To say loud music is a toxin is true. Once your addicted you do not see the point in keeping up with the latest dangers. We deny loud music problems, just like alcoholics deny their addiction never believing the damage we are doing to ourselves.

Noise pollution has tripled in the last 80 years and is now even considered a weapon by our own military for making a person incoherent by disturbing the workings of the inner ear. These high frequency weapons can leave a enemy disoriented and nauseated to the point they can not fight or function. Sound waves at high frequency can have adverse effects on the body as well. This has been scientifically proved in the last twenty years through research but the use of high frequency radio waves history goes back much further than that.

The weapon has become a big factor as a deterrent and was used in the capture of Manuel Noriega in Panama. They blared music in to his compound for 48 hours non stop. Thus bringing about his surrender to US troops. This type of weapon is used in many different areas of military and police today. It is used for breaking up large crowds of people and warding off hostile insurgents in tight quarters of combat. These same frequencies can break and shatter glass from the sound waves the machine produces. The reverberations are dangerous if used for long periods of time and the pitch is so high you never hear what is happening to you.

Sound waves can be used as a weapon or a deterrent and the environment in which it is used is a toxic environment surrounded by confusion and chaos. Science has elevated the use of high frequency speakers and we have learned many things from the use of sound waves. They are like the ripples when a stone is dropped into the water. You can see the sound wave when a big explosion happens, the sound wave travels at a great speed and can even topple buildings from it's wake. So is Loud music considered a toxin? I would think so.

Noise pollution today has grown to new heights, not since the industrial revolution of the 1900's has noise levels been as high. The loud music today only contributes to the already high levels of environmental toxins we face today.

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