Hello all

I think that the matter is interesting to explore, but IMHO the appeal has no sense in the terms in which it is written. We have been receiving RF radiation for decades, as HF/VHF/UHF have been crossing our cells for almost once century now, and microwaves for almost 30 years. The possible effect of mmWave is probably different from WiFi in ISM bands, and different from other bands; the effect of a microwave oven radiating our heads with much more power but during limited exposure times is different  from base stations radiating permanently, and from a mobile phone radiating 1W just  a few centimeters away from our brains during a couple of minutes per call. One cannot put all together and make an appeal against wireless technologies, I would never sign that. The initial claim (the whole Earth will be covered with 5G services) is false. The only real difference that 5G is bringing for sure in terms of RF radiation is the significant increase of use of mmWave, so any evidence of impact of mmWave on health could be directly linked to 5G and justify alarm. Otherwise I don't think there is real evidence of new potential risks associated to 5G.

On the other hand, it is more than reasonable to trace real evidence of the impact of each band, each use case, each technology, on the living things, serious initiatives in that sense are more than welcome.

Best

Javier

Hi all,

 

I have seen the open letter below, circulating in a couple of mailing lists

5gspaceappeal.org

 

I have to confess I have never considered the arguments raised in the letter before.

Has anyone worked on the issue here?

 

Best

Luca  

Executive summary

Telecommunications companies worldwide, with the support of governments, are poised within the next two years to roll out the fifth-generation wireless network (5G). This is set to deliver what is acknowledged to be unprecedented societal change on a global scale. We will have “smart” homes, “smart” businesses, “smart” highways, “smart” cities and self-driving cars. Virtually everything we own and buy, from refrigerators and washing machines to milk cartons, hairbrushes and infants’ diapers, will contain antennas and microchips and will be connected wirelessly to the Internet. Every person on Earth will have instant access to super-high-speed, low- latency wireless communications from any point on the planet, even in rainforests, mid-ocean and the Antarctic.

What is not widely acknowledged is that this will also result in unprecedented environmental change on a global scale. The planned density of radio frequency transmitters is impossible to envisage. In addition to millions of new 5G base stations on Earth and 20,000 new satellites in space, 200 billion transmitting objects, according to estimates, will be part of the Internet of Things by 2020, and one trillion objects a few years later. Commercial 5G at lower frequencies and slower speeds was deployed in Qatar, Finland and Estonia in mid-2018. The rollout of 5G at extremely high (millimetre wave) frequencies is planned to begin at the end of 2018.

Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming. The accumulated clinical evidence of sick and injured human beings, experimental evidence of damage to DNA, cells and organ systems in a wide variety of plants and animals, and epidemiological evidence that the major diseases of modern civilization—cancer, heart disease and diabetes—are in large part caused by electromagnetic pollution, forms a literature base of well over 10,000 peer-reviewed studies.

If the telecommunications industry’s plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels of RF radiation that are tens to hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any possibility of escape anywhere on the planet. These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth’s ecosystems.

Immediate measures must be taken to protect humanity and the environment, in accordance with ethical imperatives and international agreements.

 

 

	Luca Belli, PhD Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation +55 21 3799 5763  t @1lucabelli Praia de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 luca.belli@fgv.br internet-governance.fgv.br

 

 

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