That's my question, too. This has been one of the most informative and informed posts on the topic, and extremely helpful. But in the reduction of the basic arguments, the last one that comes up a lot is something along the lines of "if-not-over-our-backyards-then-over-whose?" which I find a valid and compelling question.
I *do* notice the increase, having lived in this particular house for 12 years, and in Somerville off and on since the eighties, and I don't like it, or how I'm more or less stuck with it as a home-owner and committed community member. But there's a part of me that feels like if I'm going to argue for S'ville's rights to a Green Line based on the transportation-equality and justice issues, than I should be prepared for my share of the airport noise *if* the increase of noise over my house indicates a more equitable burden-sharing with neighboring communities.
I do also feel that just as we as a society need to figure out how to drive automobiles less often for our ecological and economic security, we also need to figure out how to fly less. Airplane noises are the least of our worries when you look at the carbon-footprint of jet. That's a story for another day, though.
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Date: 2010-08-30 05:03 pm (UTC)I *do* notice the increase, having lived in this particular house for 12 years, and in Somerville off and on since the eighties, and I don't like it, or how I'm more or less stuck with it as a home-owner and committed community member. But there's a part of me that feels like if I'm going to argue for S'ville's rights to a Green Line based on the transportation-equality and justice issues, than I should be prepared for my share of the airport noise *if* the increase of noise over my house indicates a more equitable burden-sharing with neighboring communities.
I do also feel that just as we as a society need to figure out how to drive automobiles less often for our ecological and economic security, we also need to figure out how to fly less. Airplane noises are the least of our worries when you look at the carbon-footprint of jet. That's a story for another day, though.