Mobile phones
Our society has become both socially and economically dependent, in just one short decade, upon a technology that is doing tremendous damage to our world and us. The more we rely on it the harder it will be to give it up if and when we need to. What I am talking about is mobile phones. It is getting quite difficult to imagine a world without mobile communications. Wireless internet access is set to blanket the planet, just like cell phone networks already do. There has been an explosive development – practically all during the last three decades – that brought mobiles everywhere. The technology is not without danger. The microwaves that a mobile phone is dependant on to work are very harmful to our health. We cannot call ourselves informed in the wireless debate unless we start looking at its dark side as well as all the positive aspects. The most basic fact about cell phones and cell towers is that they emit microwave radiation; so do Wi-Fi (wireless Internet) antennas, wireless computers, cordless (portable) phones and their base units, and all other wireless devices. If it’s a communication device and it’s not attached to the wall by a wire, it’s emitting radiation. Most Wi-Fi systems and some cordless phones operate at the exact same frequency as a microwave oven. Wi-Fi is always on and always radiating. A cell phone that is on but not in use is also radiating. And, needless to say, cell towers are always radiating. As far as cell phones themselves are concerned, if you put one up to your head you are damaging your brain in a number of different ways. First, think of a microwave oven. A cell phone, like a microwave oven and unlike a hot shower, heats you from the inside out, not from the outside in. There are no sensory nerve endings in the brain to warn you of a rise in temperature because we did not evolve with microwave radiation, and this never happens in nature!