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From: Fred [ `rJ HAVINit
To: Council Testimony
Subject: No WiFi needed,Stop Res.425 DECate: Friday,November 29,2019 2:26:02 PM L t Q. -2 !4i ID 7
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 inteinet 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/science/peer-rev i ewed-research-stud i es-on-wi-fi/
No"free"WiFi in our public parks,please.
Sincerely,
Fred and Vivian Karlson
Comm. No:
(91A1•Ll
Ref.To: 2019
Ref. note DEC