Hi all,
Thank you for sharing Luca, and for this very sensible reply Javier. I
agree with you. At first, I thought it sounded paranoid or overblown at
best, conspiratorial at worst, but it is well-sourced. I don't know how
many of those sources were looking at specific bands or technologies,
though.
At least from the environmental point of view, I'm more concerned with
climate change, low Earth orbit pollution (i.e., space junk) that will
continue to worsen with the launch of satellite constellations (I used to
be more supportive of them, but I am not so sure anymore), and the impact
of e-waste, energy use, and our production/consumption habits on the
environment.
A worker in an e-waste dump in Ghana has a lot more to be fearful of in
their day-to-day life than radio wave radiation (then again, the existence
of one does not necessarily minimize the potential affect of the other).
Best,
-Michael
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:15 AM Javier Simó Reigadas <javier.simo(a)urjc.es>
wrote:
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
El 10/1/19 a las 19:37, Luca Belli escribió:
Hi all,
I have seen the open letter below, circulating in a couple of mailing lists
5gspaceappeal.org
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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.
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