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  1. Easy way to avoid exposure……don't buy one. People have jumped on the ownership bandwagon without asking themselves whether or not they really need a mobile phone. Someone like me who has a husband and son within easy reach of an ordinary landline simply doesn't need to bother with a mobile. When I'm out and about, there isn't anyone to whom I desperately need to make a phonecall.

    Of course, businesses have latched on to the "readily available" aspect of people who own the things. Years ago, businesses thrived perfectly well without them, believe it or not!

    I am often criticised for not owning one, but I'm hanged if I'm going to spend out just to join the herd, when I don't need one.

    People are unwittingly creating the waste mountains by constantly throwing away their "outdated" phones in order to buy the latest one with go-faster stripes. Corporations thrive on this type of addiction and each new phone always contains some "must-have" feature that people can't resist. It's the same as Microsoft updating Windows and then cutting off support for the old versions; people are FORCED to change by the corporations.

    As for the health effects; well, when mobiles started to come out in real numbers, our household took one look at the radiation aspect and said "no thanks". But the heavyweight sales campaigns have been all too effective in selling these things, despite the health risks; people are now addicted to their phones like they are to smoking.

    What's the answer? I don't know. Maybe I'm lucky and just highly capable of saying "no". But in the end it's up to the individual.

    1. But how much radiation giv wireless router. Good to know.

  2. blank redrocklass says:

    Good article. The only thing missing is how these devices use a specific mineral that is only available in select countries, such as found currently in the Congo in Africa. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan

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