Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution

This is an urgent plea to environmentalists and to those within the telecommunications industry, to doctors and businesspeople and government officials, that microwave radiation is an imminent danger to all of us more or less equally, and that for our common survival we must immediately halt the expansion of wireless communications upon this earth. There is no greater threat to our common future. Arthur Firstenberg CONTENTS note: page numbers from book are listed here for reference to the book and not to this web version Preface to the 1997 edition ... vii Introduction ... 1 Satellite systems ... 1 Ground based towers ... 2 Pandora's box ... 2 The power is small, but the reach is unlimited ... 3 Health hazards ... 3 Table 1: Frequencies and wavelengths ... 4 Government safety standards ... 5 Table 2: Exposure levels ... 5 Review of the literature ... 7 1. The nervous system ... 8 radiation sickness ... 8 sensory thresholds ... 9 EEG ... 10 experiments on animals ... 10 epidemiological studies ... 13 2. The heart ... 14 3. Cancer ... 16 4. Reproduction ... 17 5. Genetic Disease ... 19 6. Effects on growth and aging ... 21 7. The blood and immune system ... 22 blood cells ... 22 blood sugar ... 24 cholesterol and triglycerides ... 24 serum proteins ... 25 other biochemistry ... 25 8. Cataracts ... 25 9. Internal organs ... 26 10. Lungs ... 28 11. Bone marrow ... 29 12. Hair and nails ... 29 13. Synergistic effects ... 29 14. Microwave hearing, and other sensing ... 30 15. Electrical sensitivity (ES) ... 31 16. Diagnosing ES: a guide for doctors ... 34 17. 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 ... 47 Endangered species ... 49 The danger from satellites 51 Bibliography ... 54 About the Author ... 83