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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0986.188 2018-2020 From: Georgia Michalicek Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2020 8:24 AM To: Council Testimony COUNTY CLERK Subject: Support Resolution 678-20 COUNTY 'OF HAWAI'I • RECEIVED Time 1:111 poi By 1 Date JUL 0 4 2020 Aloha Hawaii County Planning Committee, • I hereby testify that I am in frill support of Resolution 678-20: CALLING UPON ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES OPERATING IN HAWAII COUNTY TO CEASE THE BUILDOUT OF 5G WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL SUCH TECHNOLOGIES HAVE BEEN PROVEN THROUGH INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND TESTING TO BE SAFE TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT. - I urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G(fifth generation)wireless network, including 5G from space satellites in the county and state of Hawaii. 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. Despite widespread denial, the evidence thatradio 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. • If the telecommunications industry's plans for 5G to 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 millimeter waves, which are poorly transmitted through solid material. This will require every carrier to install base stations every 100 metresli1 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" 12111 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 I permitting the Comm. No. . r. �Q j . 1 Ref. To: ° pC, Ref.-Date JUL 0 7 7121 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 perizl'it the effective,radiated power of a 5G base station's beams to be as much as 30,000 watts per 100 MHz of spectnlm,1 01 pquiivalently300,000 watts per GHz of spectrum, tens to hundreds of times more powerful than the levels permitted for:..currentbasestations. Space-based 5G __...... At least five companiesu are proposing to provide 5G from space from a combined 20,000 satellites in low- and medium-Earth orbit that will blanket the Earth with powerful, focused, steerable beams. Each satellite will emit millimeter waves with an effective radiated power of up to 5 million watts[6' from thousands of antennas arranged in a phased array. Although the energy reaching the ground from satellites will be less than that from ground-based antennas, it will irradiate areas of the Earth not reached by other transmitters and will be additional to ground-based 5G transmissions from billions of IoT objects. Even more importantly, the satellites will be located in the Earth's magnetosphere, which exerts a significant influence over the electrical properties of the atmosphere. The alteration of the Earth's electromagnetic environment may be an even greater threat to life than the radiation from ground-based antennas (see below). Harmful effects of radio frequency radiation are already proven Even before 5G was proposed, dozens of petitions and appealsr71 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.0 In 2015, 215 scientists from 41 countries communicated their alarm to the United Nations (UN) and.World Health Organization (WHO).0 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.L-1 11.11 Effects include: • Alteration of heart rhythm[121 • Altered gene expression[131 • Altered metabolism[141 • Altered stem cell development[151 • Cancers[161 • Cardiovascular diseaser171 Cognitive impairment[18] • DNA damage[191 ® Impacts on general well-being[20' ® Increased free radicals[211 • Learning and memory deficits[221 ® Impaired sperm function and quality231 • Miscarriage[24] • Neurological damaget251 • Obesity and diabetest261 • Oxidative stresst271 Effects in children include autism,1 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)[29][30' and asthma.0 Damage goes well beyond.the humanity, as there is abundant evidence of harm to diverse plant- and wildlifet321[331 and laboratory animals,inc tiding: 2 • Ants[343 • Birdsr3sir361 • Forests[371 • Frogsr381 • Fruit fliesr391 • Honey beesw • Insects[411 • Mammals[421 • Mice[431[44' • Plants[45 • Rats[46] • Trees[47] Negative microbiological effects have also been recorded. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC) concluded in 2011 that RF radiation of frequencies 30 kHz - 300 GHz are possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B). `1- 1 However, recent evidence, including the latest studies on cell phone use and brain cancer risks, indicate that RF radiation is proven carcinogenic to humanst501 and should now be classified as a "Group 1 carcinogen" along with tobacco smoke and asbestos. Most contemporary wireless signals are pulse-modulated. Harm is caused by both the high-frequency carrier wave and the low-frequency pulsations. For references noted in this testimony, and further information regarding the harmful effects of 5G technology on humans, plants, animals, and the environment, see https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal. Sincerely, Georgia Michalicek Resident, Keaau, Hawaii 3