Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News
4 July 2011
Mobile phones cause 'five fold increase in brain cancer risk
than a decade are at a five-fold risk of developing a common type of brain
cancer, new evidence indicates.
Re: Campaign WHO to revise EMF safety guidelines
Thank you for sharing all your efforts to spread awareness of the potential consequences of EMF exposures.
I share the growing concerns that a precautionary approach to EMF exposures is both warranted and long overdue, and wanted to offer an idea which may enable disparate voices around the world to unite on this issue.
Recently I came across the global non-profit organization Avaaz, who have a simple democratic mission: "to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want". http://avaaz.org/en/. If you aren't familiar with the organization, their campaigns typically address environmental issues, corruption and human rights.
If enough people ask Avaaz to lobby against the WHO's current EMF exposure safety guidelines, they would take action. Such a campaign would immediately enlist the support of many of their 9 million-plus members and would raise public awareness of the industry influence in the EMF safety debate.
My request to you is a simple one: Please consider asking your WEEP news subscribers to submit a campaign suggestion to Avaaz following the instructions below. This will only take a couple of minutes.
Go to the Avaaz website: http://www.avaaz.org/en/contact/
Fill in your name, email address and country (no other details are requested)
From the Topics, select the option: Suggest a new campaign
Subject message: EMF (Electromagnetic Radiation) Safety
In the message body enter the text:
Please lobby the WHO to promote a precautionary approach to public health and safety; reject the current ICNIRP EMF guidelines and develop new safety standards which take into account biological effects and cumulative exposures.
If desired, include a link to the Weep website, and/or other information links, and then click Send.
Kind regards,
Emma
New Zealand
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Nobel laureate: If the cellphone were a drug, it would be banned
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=249252
Robert
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Here's an earful: Cell phones may pose a brain cancer risk
McKnight's Long Term Care News
Robert Baan, a spokesman for the agency, noted that cell phone handsets expose users to more radio waves than are seen with mobile-phone towers or base ...
http://www.mcknights.com/heres-an-earful-cell-phones-may-pose-a-brain-cancer-risk/article/206488/
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New electric meters sparking some protests in Oakland, Macomb counties
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
But opponents of smart meters say it is unwise to wait for science to catch up with the health risks associated with electromagnetic radiation, which is increasing due to the explosion of modern electrical devices. Continued. ...
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/07/02/news/doc4e0fa75d9462b345842024.txt
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Arizonans for Safer Utility Technology Infrastructure
We are particularly concerned about the potential for adverse health effects related to chronic, involuntary exposure to electromagnetic radiation. ...
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Jerry Turner: An earful about our cell phones
Foster's Daily Democrat
That cell phones emit radio frequencies that can mess with our brain cells. As in giving us cancer. The more we talk on them, the closer we hold them to our head, the more risk.
She said the last 10 years there has been a dramatic decline in students' one-on-one communication skills, which she attributes to technology. At her school in southern Maine they've even added interpersonal communication role-playing to the curriculum so they aren't graduating Neanderthals who can type really fast on tiny keys but only grunt in a job interview.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110703/GJBUSINESS_01/707039915/-1/FOSBUSINESS
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