Are you concerned about wi-fi radiation in your school or your kid’s school?
‘It will be 30 years before we know the effects of electromagnetic radiation on our health.’ This amazing statement was made to me (editor) by an agency working for one of the major telecommunications companies.
Peter Limbrick writes: Without any science to show this radiation from wi-fi laptops, mobile phones, DECT phones, etc. is safe in the long term for babies, children, teenagers and adults, we use these gadgets in our work places, homes, colleges, schools and nurseries.
Adults, of course, can choose to reduce their exposure once they become aware of the dangers. Children and young people have no choice if their nursery, school or college uses wi-fi.
Many parents around the world are very worried. The extract below is taken from the website of wiredchild and is followed by a list of relevant websites. This is offered in the hope that concerned parents, teenagers, teachers and school governors can collect the information they need to get wi-fi taken out of their learning space.
Changing classrooms from wi-fi to wired is not a big problem.
'Our children as guinea pigs - Dangerous radiation?
Children are being exposed to radiation millions of times higher than their bodies have evolved to deal with.
We know that all types of radiation can be safe or dangerous depending on how much of it we are exposed to. Sunlight is a form of radiation and is mostly safe in naturally occurring levels, but can be dangerous if we are over-exposed. Similarly ionising radiation is mostly dangerous, unless we keep the levels very low, like when we have an X-ray.
Wireless technologies like mobile phones, cordless (DECT) phones and wi-fi emit microwave radiation. We haven’t been widely exposed to them for long enough to know what levels, if any, are safe in the long-term. Just like smoking and asbestos, it will take a long time for the health effects to be fully appreciated. We will probably only know the full effects once the generation growing up now, which has been exposed from birth, reach their 50's or 60's.'
Relevant websites:
http://www.wifiinschools.org.uk/
http://www.electrosensitivesociety.com/rewire-me-emagazine/
http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/main/index.php
http://www.radiationresearch.org/
