I knew it! this is crazy...
"A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening”
The comparison of 2004 to 2015 is astonishing. I always use 20 years as a length of time where the sounds in our natural environments are able to change - things we hear now we may not have heard 20 years ago and things we heard then we may not hear now. But in actual fact, Bernie Krause's recordings show that it can take even less time than that for our sound environments to change!
If this isn't an example of climate change then I don't know what is...
If this isn't an example of climate change then I don't know what is...