{"id":104402,"date":"2018-09-22T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104402"},"modified":"2018-09-22T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T14:20:11","slug":"international-appeal-stop-5g-on-earth-and-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104402","title":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL APPEAL Stop 5G on Earth and in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To the UN, WHO, EU, Council of Europe\u00a0<\/span>and governments of all nations<\/span><\/h2>\n

5gspaceappeal.org\/the-appeal<\/p>\n

We the undersigned scientists, doctors and environmental organizations from (__) 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.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Executive summary<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201csmart\u201d homes, \u201csmart\u201d businesses, \u201csmart\u201d highways, \u201csmart\u201d cities and self-driving cars. Virtually everything we own and buy, from refrigerators and washing machines to milk cartons, hairbrushes and infants\u2019 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014cancer, heart disease and diabetes\u2014are in large part caused by electromagnetic pollution, forms a literature base of well over 10,000 peer-reviewed studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the telecommunications industry\u2019s plans for 5G come to fruition,\u00a0no 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\u2019s ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Immediate measures must be taken to protect humanity and the environment, in accordance with ethical imperatives and international agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n

5G will result in a massive increase in inescapable, involuntary exposure to wireless radiation<\/span><\/p>\n

Ground-based 5G<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a><\/span>[1]<\/span> 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 \u201cphased arrays\u201d<\/span><\/a> <\/span>[2]<\/span>,<\/span>[3]<\/span> that work together to emit focused, steerable, laser-like beams that track each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/a> <\/span>[4]<\/span> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 \u201cmultiple input multiple output\u201d or MIMO. FCC rules permit the effective radiated power of a 5G base station\u2019s beams to be as much as 30,000 watts<\/span><\/a> per 100 MHz of spectrum,<\/span>[2]<\/span> or equivalently 300,000 watts per GHz of spectrum, tens to hundreds of times more powerful than the levels permitted for current base stations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Space-based 5G<\/span><\/p>\n

At least five companies<\/span>[5]<\/span> 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 millimetre waves with an effective radiated power of up to 5 million watts<\/span><\/a><\/span>[6]<\/span> 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\u2019s magnetosphere, which exerts a significant influence over the electrical properties of the atmosphere. The alteration of the Earth\u2019s electromagnetic environment may be an even greater threat to life than the radiation from ground-based antennas (see below).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Harmful effects of radio frequency radiation are already proven<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before 5G was proposed, dozens of petitions and appeals<\/span><\/a><\/span>[7]<\/span> by international scientists, including the Freiburger Appeal<\/span><\/a> signed by over 3,000 physicians, called for a halt to the expansion of wireless technology and a moratorium on new base stations.<\/span>[8]<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, 215 scientists from 41 countries<\/span><\/a> communicated their alarm to the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO).<\/span>[9]<\/span> They stated that \u201cnumerous recent scientific publications have shown that EMF [electromagnetic fields] affects living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines\u201d. More than 10,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies demonstrate harm to human health from RF radiation.<\/span>[10]<\/span> [11]<\/span> Effects include:<\/span><\/p>\n