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I have been noticing that there are no insects and few birds around. We've had a mild winter, and even in cold winters, birds usually abound, at feeders and in bushes, gathering and chirping...Sure, I'm in a city (where they recently rolled out 5G without warning), but I am used to seeing Cardinals and Chickadees, but I don't see many birds at all this winter. And Spring is nearly here...Crocuses are starting to burst, but I am starting to wonder if this is the year that we actually face a Silent Spring, as Rachel Carson warned us about so long ago. I have trouble sleeping, more so since 5G came into the area. Most of us are completely indoctrinated into cell phone use, for our business and for personal connection in an isolating world, meanwhile not equating the towers and satellites that power them with the increasing extinction of our pollinators, birds, bees and bats, and the food chain of animals, including humans. Will it take crop failure and famine to wake us up?
5G IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT, perhaps because it is invisible. We are being exposed to massive amounts of radiation, a web of death that is eliminating the web of life at alarming rates. Please read, participate, and donate if you can. We need to get better organized so we can educate the masses and our representatives. We need to support scientists who speak out, and fund more research, before we, too become extinct. When you compare a virus that potentially can kill 2% of populations, that's serious, but not as much as a technology that can, in short time, wipe out life on earth as we know it. I beg you to please consider the information in this appeal, and join the fight! ~LNPB |
An urgent plea: Legal update; Decline in bat populations; Help needed ---from the International Appeal to Stop 5G On Earth and in Space
THE FLAMES OF PROGRESS
I have been entrusted with the
International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space, but I find myself
bewildered -- bewildered by the devastation around me; by the
destruction of the cathedral of life into which I was born; by the
silencing of the songs of the fifty million other species with whom I
was raised; by the failure of my fellow human beings to care or to
notice. How can they not miss their brothers and sisters? How can they
not miss the magnificent symphony? How is it possible?
“The oceans are dying,” wrote Jacques Cousteau in 1970. “Can anyone
believe it is possible,” wrote Rachel Carson in 1962, “to lay down such a
barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit
for all life?” “I have seen too much,” said microwave researcher Allan
Frey in 1969, explaining why he did research on animals and not humans.
“I do not feel that I can take people into these fields and expose them
and in all honesty indicate to them that they are going into something
safe.”
Yet here we are half a century later: there will soon be more plastics than fish in the oceans, the world uses four times more pesticides per year than in 1962, and five billion people are holding open sources of microwave radiation in their hands.
The Earth is burning, yet no firefighters come. In the face of certain
catastrophe, everyone is going about their business as if everything is
fine, as if by magic the synthetic fibers in our clothing and the rubber
tires on our automobiles will stop becoming microplastics in the sea;
as if the few insects left in the world will magically escape the
pesticides that we apply to our lawns and the radiation from the cell
phones into which we speak. Everyone is still going about their business
as if everything is fine. Isn’t it time that we stop? And since the
most immediate threat to life comes from our cell phones, isn’t it time
to throw them away?
ASSISTANT NEEDED
I need help with organizational, clerical, and phone work.
The clerical work ideally should be done by someone who lives here in
Santa Fe or plans to move here. The organizational and phone work could
be done from elsewhere in the United States. I cannot continue to do
this work without an assistant. It is too draining to do it all by
myself and I simply don’t have the time.
All of the world’s major environmental organizations need to be
contacted systematically and professionally and brought on board.
Outreach to Elon Musk and his board of directors needs to be coordinated
and followed through. A systematic media campaign needs to be mounted.
Contact with Stop 5G groups worldwide needs to be maintained. Funds need
to be raised. An organization to end the use of cell phones needs to be
created (see below).
Please contact me if you have excellent secretarial skills, especially
if you live in Santa Fe or plan to move here, or if you can help with
phone calling and organizational tasks. There is money for one full-time
position. Above all I need a kindred spirit: someone who does not own a
cell phone, who loves nature, and who is not into conspiracy theories.
LEGAL UPDATE
Our federal lawsuit in New Mexico is still
pending. As a reminder, we are asking the court to declare that a city
ordinance, a state law, and a federal law are invalid because they
deprive us of our constitutional rights: our right to life, liberty and
property; our right to free speech; and our right to petition the
government for redress of grievances. Our motion for preliminary
injunction asks that antennas be prohibited from being placed on the
sidewalks of Santa Fe in order to protect the rights of the plaintiffs,
who have previously lost homes and/or businesses to cell towers. The
court has not yet ruled on our motion.
A comparable lawsuit
was filed last week in the Netherlands against the Dutch State. On
February 25, the Dutch foundation Stop5GNL issued a summons to the
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, asking that 5G be prohibited
“unless it is demonstrated with sufficient certainty, by consensus of
the scientific community, that 5G does not pose a danger to public
health in the long term.” The lawsuit will be heard in the District
Court in The Hague.
SEVERE DECLINE IN BAT POPULATIONS
If insects are vanishing all over the
world, one would expect insect-eating bats to be starving to death. And
there is evidence that it is so. The decline of bats in the United
States is being blamed on a fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a
skin condition that has been detected in bats in 40 states and 7
Canadian provinces. But what is weakening bats so much that they are
getting a fungal disease? And is it really the fungal disease that is
reducing their numbers? Or is it starvation?
In July 2006, when John Ackerman and two other cavers entered Bat River
Cave in southeastern Minnesota, the walls of the bat gallery -- a
chamber with an underground waterfall – were thick with three species of
bats. In the winter of 2010-2011, a count was made: 4,112 bats were
hibernating in the cave. On February 9, 2020, Ackerman and four other
people went back into the cave: only 82 bats were left, a 98 percent population decline.
In Pennsylvania, five insectivorous bat species are on the endangered
species list, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission reports a 99 percent decline in bat populations in that state.
“This is our worst ever year for starving bats found in the wild,” said
Hazel Ryan of the Kent Bat Group in England in the fall of 2019.
John Allen used to see bats regularly where he lives, at Maori Island in
Grovetown, New Zealand, but they have disappeared because there is no
food source for them. “It's absolutely incredible,” he says.
“There are no insects flying around at night now. You can leave your
windows and doors open with the lights on and nothing will fly in.”
Allen blames agricultural pesticides. But it is happening all over the
world. “Almost everybody over the age of about 50 years old,” says biology professor Dave Goulson
of the University of Sussex, “can remember a time when any
long-distance drive in summer resulted in a windscreen so splattered
with dead insects that it was necessary to stop occasionally to scrub
them off.”
And “without insects,” Goulson observes, “a multitude of birds, bats,
reptiles, amphibians, small mammals and fish would disappear, for they
would have nothing to eat.” And insects, because of their small size and
high rate of metabolism, are affected much more severely than larger
creatures by RF radiation. After just ten minutes’ exposure to a cell
phone, the metabolism of a honey bee comes to a virtual standstill,
causing effective starvation. Insects are disappearing because they are
starving to death, and bats, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are
going hungry because there are no insects.
"IF NOT NOW, WHEN? IF NOT ME, WHO?"
Most people who call me for information are
calling me on their cell phones. Most people who are signing the
International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space are signing it on
their cell phones. Everyone wants their cell phone but they want me to
stop 5G for them and it is impossible. They need their cell phone when
they travel. They need it for their business. They need it for their
family. They need it for their friends. Or they think 4G is safe, but
not 5G. Or they “only” have a flip phone. Or, thinking they are doing
good for the planet, they keep their phone “only for emergencies.” They
think their phone is not irradiating the birds and the insects and their
neighbors like the towers are. They think that if they keep the phone
at some distance from their head, that they are safe, because they
believe the myth that there is a dose-response relationship. They think
that if they only keep their phone for emergencies, the towers do not
have to be there. But if even one person wants to be able to use a cell
phone wherever they go in case of an emergency, the entire wireless
infrastructure of the planet has to be there. Which means no insects, no
birds, and very shortly no life and no planet. And there is not just
one person who wants to be able to use a cell phone in an emergency,
there are seven billion.
Steven Lucas writes from California:
“Why would someone protest a product and system that they continue
to pay monthly to use? Imagine if a board member at Mothers Against
Drunk Driving opened a bottle of Rum and started handing out Rum and
Coke drinks to calm everyone before the meeting. It makes no sense.”
Antoinette Jansson writes from Norway:
“Compare the use of cell phones with smoking cigarettes, in public,
while in a protest march, worldwide, against cancer, against the tobacco
industry. Imagine that film cameras would be there, of the big
broadcasters, filming the cigarette smokers protesting against cancer
and tobacco.”
Melissa Chalmers writes from Canada:
“I am continually stunned by advocates having cell phones or using
any sort of wireless. Do you think staunch advocates against GMO's are
buying the stuff? It's like members of PETA advocating while wearing a
fur coat. How can anyone take someone like that seriously? Why would
anyone listen?”
It is abundantly clear that we are losing -- losing the fight and losing
our planet -- because for almost everyone on Earth, the danger from
EMFs is an abstraction. It is noise, like the buzzing of a fly, and
nothing more. Government officials cannot hear it. Judges cannot hear
it. They look at the supplicants before them, who are talking some
nonsense that makes no sense to them, and who are also treating
it like an abstraction. So many of the EMF scientists own cell phones.
So many of the EMF activists own cell phones. The lawmakers, the CEOs of
the telecom companies and satellite companies, and the activists who
are fighting for other environmental causes, they look at us who are
saying, “You are killing us,” and they see cell phones in our hands and
they don’t believe us.
A worldwide organization needs to be created, whose members do
not own cell phones, whose purpose is to end the use of cell phones on
Earth.
For most people this seems like an impossibility, but that is because
they do not remember that only 25 years ago almost no one owned a cell
phone, and that young people did not get cancer, diabetes, heart attacks
and strokes like they do today. And the air was full of butterflies and
birds, and the streams were full of tadpoles and frogs. It is because
no one has explained to them what radiation is. No one would willingly
use a radioactive phone, but that is essentially what everyone is doing.
Radio waves and gamma rays are only two ends of a continuous spectrum;
they are essentially the same phenomenon and have the same disastrous
effects on our bodies and our planet.
The train that we are on is a train to nowhere. On either side, through
the windows, can be seen insects, and birds, and frogs, and if we listen
we can hear them buzzing, chirping, and croaking.
Please contact me if you would like to participate in the creation of an organization that will get us off this train.
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