CELL TOWER RADIATION IS CAUSING INSECTS TO DIE

Extract from a paper entitled "5G Cell Towers Cause Massive Insect Decline on the Greek island of Samos" by Diana Kordas in Feb 2022

In her conclusion Diana Kordas wrote:

An ongoing decline in insect numbers occurred after the introduction of 4G/LTE, and the new 5G network on Samos has caused insect declines to reach a tipping point. Since July, insects have been declining very fast. Small mammals are declining as well.

Insect declines will affect insect-eating birds and the decline of small mammals will in turn affect raptors and larger mammals which hunt. It could take some time for these effects to be seen. Very few migratory birds have been seen this year, and some birds which should have migrated to Africa are wintering here. 5G appears to be affecting migration.

Beekeepers on Samos have been experiencing problems with their hives for several years: they find empty hives in spring, and in some places bees have had trouble orienting themselves to return to their hives.

Farmers in the main agricultural areas have noticed pollinator declines since the introduction of 4G/LTE. Some have taken to planting banks of flowers to attract pollinators to their crops. There is not much farming where we live, except a few summer gardens, so the lack of pollinators has gone largely unremarked except for the lack of pollination in squashes. Winter crops do not need pollination unless plants are allowed to flower and go to seed, but a lack of pollinators will be very evident come spring when summer crops are planted.

Image: Is the Spoonwing Lacewing now extinct on Samos?

The lack of pollinators as well as soil insects and microbes, caused by soil acidification, will affect agriculture, both locally and globally. Crop yields will be low and some crops may fail altogether. As a result, prices which are already high will rise. It is not inconceivable that, with the introduction of 5G globally, there will be crop failures worldwide. This will lead to mass starvation. Insect declines and extinctions will lead to the extinction of many species of birds, as well as to much of the world’s wildlife—the chain of life will have been broken.

It is somewhat beyond the scope of this paper, but from what I am observing, I do not believe that signal strength (power) makes as much difference to the effects RF radiation has on insects or wildlife as other factors. There may be a few more insects or birds in areas far from cell towers, but nowhere are there nearly as many as there used to be. Wherever there is a wireless signal, birds and insects are declining. All wireless communications frequencies, (with the unnatural features of polarization/coherence, pulsation, modulation and variability) damage living creatures. The shorter wavelengths of 5G appear to affect insects much more than the longer wavelengths of 2G, 3G and 4G.

There is a large body of research which shows serious damaging biological effects at extremely low RF radiation levels—levels which are far below permitted RF radiation levels in countries with even the strictest standards. Look at the Bioinitiative Group’s Color Charts (https://bioinitiative.org/rf-color-charts/) for examples of this. For instance, changes in genes have been observed at 0.1 nanowatt per square centimeter.

Many people are asking for “safer”, by which they mean lower, RF radiation standards, in the belief that these will protect them and the environment. The United States Federal Communications Commission says this is not possible:

“No device could reliably transmit any usable level of energy by today’s technological standards while meeting those [the BioInitiative Group's biologically-based RF exposure] limits.” (p.8 FCC Order 19-126) 20 RF radiation at lower power will still possess all the features which make it biologically dangerous; it will still be pulsed, polarized/coherent, modulated and variable; mobile communications cannot work without these features.

If we really want to halt insect declines, protect the environment, and protect people, there is only one way to do it—by stopping wireless technology altogether. If we cannot give up mobile communications, we will irreparably damage the environment and ourselves.

Appeal to Readers

Without insects, there will be no life on earth. I realize that many if not most people don’t particularly like insects—the word conjures up images of mosquitoes, spiders, flies, or cockroaches rather than butterflies, fireflies, bees or damselflies. In 2018 Bloomberg News ran an article: “Google’s Parent Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes Worldwide. Bite. Breed. Die.” which about summed up many people’s attitudes to insects: they’re horrible, they bite or sting, they may be poisonous or spread diseases, and we don’t need them.

The trouble is, we do need insects, even mosquitoes.

Life is a chain, and many creatures higher up the chain rely on the mosquito (or some other insect) for food, or eat the creatures that eat the mosquito, to be eaten themselves in turn by other creatures. We break the chain of life at our peril, because we are part of it.

In writing this paper it occurred to me: 5G has been going in around the world for some time now, but I have read hardly anything about it affecting insects, or soil, or bird migration, or animals. Hasn’t anyone else noticed? Is Greece the first country to have put 5G all over rural areas? Or are people simply not connecting the dots and continuing to blame pesticides and climate change for everything that goes wrong in nature? Because I don’t believe for a second that what’s happening here isn’t happening in other places. Something caused the bumblebee to become extinct in nine U.S. states. And birdwatcher friends are telling me that they too are seriously concerned about migration.

A big part of the problem is that no one is looking. Every day we take our dogs for a walk and see other people out walking or running, but are they looking around them? Virtually every person we see is carrying a smartphone, and more often than not they are looking at it as they go along. They might notice an elephant if it got in their way, but a bee? Or a lack of bees? They are too involved with “staying connected” to stay connected with the world in front of their eyes. If you don’t look you won’t see. If you live your life in what NY Times columnist Roger Cohen dubbed “device-distracted apathy” the world around you might as well not exist.

I’m tired of hearing, “Wireless communications are here to stay; we can’t do without them; we can’t go back to the Stone Age.”

What we cannot do without—really can’t do without— is nature. A planet with dead seas and dead land will not support us; we will die of oxygen deprivation or starve to death.

Who will you call then?

Now that 5G has arrived, time is running out fast. I don’t think it’s too late to change things, but I don’t think we have much time left to do it. So I ask you—if this paper has meant anything at all to you, think seriously about giving up your wireless devices. There are other ways to communicate. Contact NGOs and ask them to add RF radiation to their list of major threats to the planet, to stop promoting smartphone apps which identify bugs or birds, and to stop tracking animals, birds and insects using wireless devices. Contact government representatives and ask them to support alternatives to wireless technology.

If you don’t care, who will?

Please read the full paper, listen to this interview and share this article. It is only by raising the issue and making people look up from their screens to observe how nature is being decimated all around them that we can apply pressure on authorities to change how we communicate.

ONWARDS!
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