Parents Outraged As Cellphone Towers Erected In School Yards
While driving through the streets of many cities in America, an eyesore is revealed that flies in the face of logic, mainstream medical literature, and law. Make no mistake that each cell tower you see represents an utter lack of concern for generations of children, families, and communities as a whole. What many in the medical community warned of for years is now coming to the surface in scientific studies as cell phone tower radiation rains on the public.
A key study released last month chronicles why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults, and lists the dangerous consequences. In addition, children’s brains have a higher sensitivity to the accumulation of adverse effects of chronic exposure to EMF, as their brains and bodies are in early stages of development.
Correlations have been made between radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF/EMF) exposure in children and disruption in memory, decline of attention, diminishing leaning and cognitive abilities, increased irritability, increased epileptic readiness and higher disease rates.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), rates RF/EMF as possible class 2B carcinogens. In a list of 2B carcinogens that contain lead, pesticides, DDT, gasoline fumes, and chloroform, cell towers are the only class 2B carcinogens to continuously bathe communities across the US and the world.
Here’s Your Check “Mate”
Here’s how it works: Typically, each cell tower pays the landowner(s) either a lump sum or a monthly payment to build and operate a cell tower on their property. Perhaps a bigger question is, on school property bought with public dollars, why are we allowing private corporations to build hazardous carcinogenic emitters on top of our children’s heads?
This would be comparable to allowing open air, waste dumping of DDT, pesticides, lead, gasoline, etc. on schoolyard playgrounds. Do parents and communities know to who or where these monthly payments (or one-time lump sum) for the cell towers are going?
Read: 10 Ways to Reduce Radiation from Cell Phone Use
Some people reading this may not understand the danger presented by not removing these towers and their EMF pollution from their children’s schools, but the petition contained in this article represents a start down the path to reclaim our children’s health and grow awareness around radiofrequency electromagnetic pollution in communities and at home.
Sprint, You Are the Weakest Link
A quick survey of the major cell carriers in the United States shows that among the major corporations, Sprint is one of the moderate to higher emitters of RF/EMF by looking up their total coverage using OpenSignal.com. In addition, Sprint sticks out as one of the more vulnerable corporations having a fraction of the employees compared to other cell carriers, reporting the lowest profit margin of any cell carrier (-0.05%), and having the lowest stock price of the major players.
It all starts with a public petition, and depending on how Sprint wants to handle things, can easily move forward into a viral boycott. The purpose is to use Sprint, the financially weakest link in the multi-trillion dollar cell phone industry, to send a message to them all.
As demonstrated with companies like Monsanto, an educated public can not only affect an individual company’s market share/market cap, but more importantly can shift an entire industry according to The People’s will. In the food sector, using GMO ingredients is now an immediate financial labiality for companies. It is clear that smart phones, tablets, computers, and their run-away technology are here to stay and have given us communication and information capabilities like never before.
However, through their actions, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, and many others have crossed an inexcusable line by purposely putting profits over the health and lives of our children and communities.
The Sound of Silence
A petition could be viewed as a community and people’s collective voice asking nicely – please stop. In the event that Sprint (and other cell carriers) ignore or merely give public lip service to the people’s request, there are additional steps to take. Sprint reports a total of 38,000 employees as of 2014 while Twitter currently reports a total of 284 million active accounts users in over 35 languages and Facebook boasts an impressive 2.2 billion users.
How long would it take to affect the total revenue and market cap for Sprint if a viral campaign kicked off spotlighting Sprint’s refusal to publically remove their RF/EMF emitting devices from cell towers on school property?
Their call center can’t be that big.
Click here to view the petition.
Closing statement from petition:
“We the undersigned of this document strongly urge Sprint and its management to lead the wireless and cellular phone corporate sector in a public pledge to remove all cell towers from school property, playgrounds, and all other locations that children and kids commonly gather in communities. Perhaps graveyards will be more appropriate locations to place your towers. We The People are not as concerned about the health of the individuals who reside in those locations”
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What next? Complaining about WiFi access points that are scattered around pretty much every decent educational facility nowadays? Oh wait, many people already have.
WiFi has been proven hazardous. People think that because they don’t fall over dead within an hour, it must be safe. It’s called “long term exposure.”
What do you want us to do instead?
Have a jungle of ethernet cables going to everyone’s portable devices just so they can access the internet, just because some studies say that it could be dangerous after an unspecified period of time?
Why does everybody think they “need” all those portable devices. 20 years ago the only people with cell phones were doctors and drug dealers, but now everybody thinks they need one. It’s a luxury, and has not really improved quality of life as much as some people think. To the contrary, having the Interent at your fingertips every second often distracts people from more important things.
Oh no, whatever would we do w/o our smart phones kind sir? 🤔🙄
Look, guys, you’re starting to become like the modern version of green peace here.
Everyone agreed with green peace circa 2000 so they weren’t radical looney-left anymore. Because some quarters in green peace WANTED to be looney, they went nuts, now they are just that. Nuts. No one takes them seriously anymore. Is that what natural news wants?
A cell phone tower? Are you serious? Cell phones work at frequencies from 800-2100MHz, lets use 1,000MHz for our example, the higher the frequency you go the higher FSPL is anyway….. The free space path loss at 1000MHz over 10m is 52dB. That means the signal drops 175,000 times travelling 10 m. At 20m its 58 dB or 700,000 times at 30m its 1.6 million times or 62dB. The towers themselves are 20-30 meters up already so lets do some arithmetic:
Effective Radiated Power fr0m a tower is ~100W or 50dBm. Lets say for worst case its pointed right at the school yard which is 30m away. So, we have 50dBm – 62dB = -12dBm left. Do you know what -12dBm is? its 12dB less than 1mW or 62uW, yes, you read that correctly, 63 micro Watts, 1 x 10^-6 Watts. There is 100 times that in front of your microwave at home. Ok, you say, what if its a 1000W EIRP? Well, ok, but the FCC would not license that but lets do the numbers anyway. 1000W is 60dBm so the received signal at 30m is -2dBm or 2dB less than 1mW which is 630uW. Makes sense no, 10 times 63uW is 630uW. Arithmetic anyone?
You wrote this whole page for 630uW?
You want to complain about something? Let me list a few things:
1. The 10th Amendment is completely ignored,
2. The fourth amendment has basically disappeared,
3. The constitution forbids debts to be paid with letters of credit (paper money) and specifies only gold or silver,
4. The constitution states that a standing federal army may only exist if there is a declaration of war and then for only 2 years. The last time congress declared war was December 8, 1941,
5. The second amendment states that the right to own firearms “shall not be infringed” yet there are 2600 FEDERAL laws on the books about owning fire arms.
Those are a few things to focus your energies on, forget the cell phone towers.
Cheers,
Squid
See the work of Dr. Olle Johansson a neuroscientist at the world-renowned Karolinska Institute. He has been studying this for 30 years and we should listen to his scientific results in this regard, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7YIZ1x0r8
There’s that thing called choice. Some of us don’t want these things around us. You dig? I’m not a fan of having microwave transceivers in my vicinity. And keep in mind that the cell towers are linked in with the behavioral modification. Look that one up. So there goes people being concerned about the items on your list. The cell towers go up, our brains go off.
You get more radiation from holding your cell phone up to your head and brain than the tower nearby gives you. Don’t worry about the tower. Quit using a cell phone.