HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0986.305 2018-2020 COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY OF HAWAII
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From: Julie Antonelli Time 10:lot orn BY de
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 10:17 AM
To: Council Testimony Date JUL 2 1 2020
Cc: Poindexter, Valerie; Chung, Aaron; Lee Loy, Sue; Kierkiewicz, Ashley; Kanealii-Kleinfelder,
Matt; David, Maile; Villegas, Rebecca; Eoff, Karen; Richards, Tim
Subject: Support 678-20
Attachments: International+Appeal+-+Stop+5G+on+Earth+and+in+Space.pdf; ATT00001.htm
Support Resolution 678-20
Respected Hawaii County Council, I stand by the other 385 other testimonies, in favor of passing
Resolution 678-20.
Scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens_from 218 countries, urgently call for a
halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G_from space
satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G,
3G and 4G networks_for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful
for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and
the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.
Telecommunications companies worldwide, with the support of governments, are poised within the
next two years to roll out the fifth-generation wireless network (5G). This is set to deliver what is
acknowledged to be unprecedented societal change on a global scale. We will have "smart" homes,
"smart" businesses, "smart" highways, "smart" cities and self-driving cars. Virtually everything we
own and buy, from refrigerators and washing machines to milk cartons, hairbrushes and infants'
diapers, will contain antennas and microchips and will be connected wirelessly to the Internet. Every
person on Earth will have instant access to super-high-speed, low- latency wireless communications
from any point on the planet, even in rainforests, mid-ocean and the Antarctic.
What is not widely acknowledged is that this will also result in unprecedented environmental change
on a global scale. The planned density of radio frequency transmitters is impossible to envisage. In
addition to millions of new 5G base stations on Earth and 20,000 new satellites in space, 200 billion
transmitting objects, according to estimates, will be part of the Internet of Things by 2020, and one
trillion objects a few years later. Commercial 5G at lower frequencies and slower speeds was deployed
in Qatar, Finland and Estonia in mid-2018. The rollout of 5G at extremely high (millimetre wave)
frequencies is planned to begin at the end of 2018.
Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is
already overwhelming. The accumulated clinical evidence of sick and injured human beings,
experimental evidence of damage to DNA, cells and organ systems in a wide variety of plants and
animals, and epidemiological evidence that the major diseases of modern civilization—cancer, heart
disease and diabetes—are in large part caused by electromagnetic pollution, forms a literature base of
well over 10,000 peer-reviewed studies.
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If the telecommunications industry's plans for 5G come to fruition, no person, no animal, no bird, no
insect and no plant on Earth will be able to avoid exposure, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to levels
of RF radiation that are tens to hundreds of times greater than what exists today, without any
possibility of escape anywhere on the planet. These 5G plans threaten to provoke serious, irreversible
effects on humans and permanent damage to all of the Earth's ecosystems.
Immediate measures must be taken to protect humanity and the environment, in accordance with
ethical imperatives and international agreements.
5G will result in a massive increase in inescapable, involuntary exposure to wireless radiation
Ground-based 5G
In order to transmit the enormous amounts of data required for the Internet of Things (IoT), 5G
technology, when fully deployed, will use millimetre waves, which are poorly transmitted through
solid material. This will require every carrier to install base stations every 100 metres[1] in every
urban area in the world. Unlike previous generations of wireless technology, in which a single antenna
broadcasts over a wide area, 5G base stations and 5G devices will have multiple antennas arranged in
"phased arrays" [2],[3] that work together to emit focused, steerable, laser-like beams that track each
other.
Each 5G phone will contain dozens of tiny antennas, all working together to track and aim a narrowly
focused beam at the nearest cell tower. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has
adopted rules [4] permitting the effective power of those beams to be as much as 20 watts, ten times
more powerful than the levels permitted for current phones.
Each 5G base station will contain hundreds or thousands of antennas aiming multiple laser-like beams
simultaneously at all cell phones and user devices in its service area. This technology is called
"multiple input multiple output" or MIMO. FCC rules permit the effective radiated power of a 5G base
station's beams to be as much as 30,000 watts per 100 MHz of spectrum,[2] or equivalently 300,000
watts per GHz of spectrum, tens to hundreds of times more powerful than the levels permitted for
current base stations.
Even before 5G was proposed, dozens of petitions and appeals[7] by international scientists, including
the Freiburger Appeal signed by over 3,000 physicians, called for a halt to the expansion of wireless
technology and a moratorium on new base stations.[8]
In 2015, 215 scientists from 41 countries communicated their alarm to the United Nations (UN) and
World Health Organization (WHO).[9] They stated that "numerous recent scientific publications have
shown that EMF [electromagnetic fields] affects living organisms at levels well below most
international and national guidelines". More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrate
harm to human health from RF radiation.[10]
Please read the attached document for more information:
Thank you.
-Julie Antonelli
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