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From: Marta Barreras ,!� OF r{ `3°#1x31`
To: Council Testimony
Subject: No WiFi needed,Stop Res.425 pp .g
Date: Friday,November 29,2019 12:41:02 PM 701 9 DEC i L
Subject line: No WiFi needed, Stop Res. 425
Honorable Council Members:
Please stop the proliferation of WiFi until it can be proven safe. I do not consent to our
public places being used as areas of wireless radiation, which harms myself and
family during our time outdoors. Please follow the Precautionary Principle, like so
many other municipalities, and which is part of our Hawaii Constitution.
WiFi will is not necessary to make a phone call. WiFi is for internet data. We do not
need to surf the web, at the expense of our health and wellbeing, while in our public
parks.
There are now hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing that wireless
radiation is harmful. The government's exposure guidelines were set in the 1990s and
based on science from the 1980s. Did anyone even own a cellphone in the '80s? The
guidelines only consider heating effects, as if we were a roast cooking in a microwave
oven! Despite a huge body of scientific evidence, the FCC refuses to update these
guidelines, which are among the least protective in the world.
This is extremely concerning when it comes to our children, whose small, developing
bodies make them more vulnerable to the effects of wireless radiation. Children also
have a longer life in front of them to experience the kind of damage researchers have
documented: various cancers, reproductive problems, DNA damage, etc.
To view some of this evidence:
https://ehtrust.org/saence/peer-revlewe .d-research-stud ies-on-wi-fi/
No "free" WiFi in our public parks, please.
Sincerely,
Marta Barreras
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