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Microwaving Our Planet:The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution
ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG 1997
Published by the Cellular Phone Taskforce
 
 Mindfully.org note
:
 Contact Arthur Firstenberg at: PO Box 1337, Mendocino CA 95460, telephone: 707-937-3990 (voicemail)At Arthur's request, we have only a few paragraphs and the bibliography here.He believes, and rightly so, that "the Internet is part of the problem."
[Also seeKilling Fields- Arthur Firstenberg / The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1jun04]
 
CONTENTS
 Preface to the 1997 edition ... viiIntroduction ... 1Satellite systems ... 1Ground based towers ... 2Pandora's box ... 2The power is small, but the reach is unlimited ... 3Health hazards ... 3Table 1: Frequencies and wavelengths ... 4Government safety standards ... 5Table 2: Exposure levels ... 5Review of the literature ... 71. The nervous system ... 8
radiation sickness
... 8
 sensory thresholds
... 9
 EEG 
... 10
 experiments on animals
... 10
 epidemiological studies
... 13
 
2. The heart ... 143. Cancer ... 164. Reproduction ... 175. Genetic Disease ... 196. Effects on growth and aging ... 217. The blood and immune system ... 22
blood cells
... 22
 blood sugar 
... 24
 cholesterol and triglycerides
... 24
 serum proteins
... 25
 other biochemistry 
... 25
 
8. Cataracts ... 259. Internal organs ... 2610. Lungs ... 2811. Bone marrow ... 29
 
12. Hair and nails ... 2913. Synergistic effects ... 2914. Microwave hearing, and other sensing ... 3015. Electrical sensitivity (ES) ... 3116. Diagnosing ES: a guide for doctors ... 3417. Mechanisms of injury ... 38
shear-strain/closed head injury 
... 38
blood-brain and other barriers
... 40
 calcium efflux
... 41
 hypoxia
... 42
 heavy metals
... 42
  porphyria
... 43
 molecular interactions
... 44
 solid state physics
... 46
 
18. Conclusion ... 47Endangered species ... 49The danger from satellites 51Bibliography ... 54About the Author ... 83 
This is an urgent plea to environmentalists and to those within the telecommunicationsindustry, to doctors and businesspeople and government officials, that microwaveradiation is an imminent danger to all of us more or less equally, and that for our commonsurvival we must immediately halt the expansion of wireless communications upon thisearth. There is no greater threat to our common future.Arthur FirstenbergJune 22, 1997Norwich, NYINTRODUCTIONFrom Bill Gates' planned fleet of 300 satellites to the millions of ground based antennasbeing constructed through-out the world, our privacy is being invaded, our healthundermined, our water polluted, endangered species threatened, the ozone layerdestroyed, and our climate altered. The assault has already begun.
 
The purpose of this report is to give a general overview of the environmental threatsassociated with the wireless revolution, and an in-depth review of 70 years of researchinto the health hazards of microwaves.The lack of an adequate review of the literature until now has led to the incorrectperception that the scientific evidence is contradictory and inconclusive. In fact thescientific evidence is consistent and overwhelming.
Satellite systems
In 1957 there were no artificial satellites in the sky above us. Today there are thousands.The list of countries that have launched satellites to date is huge: the United States,Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Spain, England,Russia, Turkey, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, Australia,New Zealand, Tonga, the European Community, Eastern Europe, the Arab League, Pan-Asia, and Intelsat (125 nations). Multinational corporations are sending up fleets. Evensmall private entrepreneurs are filling up the heavens with smaller, cheaper hardware.Whether a cellular phone company wants to provide global service, or a rancher inAustralia wants to know the whereabouts of his cows, satellite technology will do thetrick.
Ground based towers
The existing network of ground based antenna systems is not good enough. Thetelecommunications industry says it will need 270,000 more facilities immediately just inthe United States
(Microwave News,
May /June 1996, p. 10), and comparable numberselsewhere in the world. These are going up on lampposts and apartment buildings incities, and on fresh eyesores throughout the suburbs, countryside and wilderness.
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