KILLER WAVES
Zane Fischer's corporate marketing remarks about microwave technology is very sad to me [
Zane's World, April 16: "It's Only Money-And Madness"
]. Sad because he believes people are expendable and citizens must spend their own money (since corporations certainly won't) to prove something is harmful.
We have been so brainwashed by the corporate consumer values of the bottom line mentality that we believe people are expendable for profit. The new more intelligent and actual moral value (called the "precautionary principle") is that if there are serious concerns, or probable cause that there can be harm to people, then we should ban the chemical or process like microwave technology (let's use the most meaningful term as we all know what happens inside a microwave oven) until industry proves it is safe. These more intelligent and humane values have been adopted in Europe.
I speak from the pain of having recently buried a dear friend who lived across the street from the Unitarian Church who for a number of years had a microwave tower in their belfry across the street from where my friend lived. Can I prove that the microwave tower killed him? Of course not, but what we do know as antidotal research (there is much evidence that industry will not allow research into the side effects of their product) is that the closer you live to a microwave tower the higher your rates (30 percent higher) of all cancer. Yes, my friend died of inoperative lung cancer.
Zane, if you're going to be a reporter you have to research both sides of the issue with relative impartiality; if you just want to rant, call yourself an entertainer so we don't waste our time reading what you write.
ROBERT FRANCIS JOHNSON
SANTA FE
THE DANGER IS REAL
Regarding Wi-Fi: I challenge Zane Fischer 1) to calm down, and 2) to actually (gasp!) look at the science. Instead of thoughtlessly piling onto the global hysteria that practically lynches anyone who dares to advocate slowing down the tsunami of compulsory wireless (remember democracy, Zane?).
Rather than repeating mindless mantras saying that Wi-Fi is less powerful than cell phones (it isn't), and that only tinfoil-hat nuts believe it is dangerous, I suggest you log on to your wireless computer and find out for yourself that the majority of some 3,000 existing studies have found one or more serious health effects from wireless technology.
And then I expect a proper apology from you in the pages of the Reporter to those who actually know something about this subject, and who are working hard to protect you and everyone else in this community from a neurotoxic, eight-year-old technology whose bioeffects you know nothing about, which is being criminally sold by a trillion dollar industry, even to children and infants, as though it were an improvement on Mother's milk.
ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE
SANTA FE
BAD ENERGY
Tinfoil hat this, Zane Gray. Your energy field fills a large ovoid space reaching from below your feet to as high as you can reach above your head. The chakras of your energy body are designed to pick up or sense any signal that enters your energy field. The crown chakra is the biggest and most complex signal modulator in the human energy anatomy. Whenever your energy field is attacked by an environmental stress (such as wireless transmissions), your crown chakra attempts to ground it out with one of three forms of subtle energy before it reaches your energy body (I hope you're following me, Zane).
Furtherly, the average crown chakra is very effective at grounding out man-made electromagnetic stresses, but nowadays it has an increasingly tough job on its hands (with or without an aluminum beanie)…you simply can't get away from such environmental stress (that includes all kinds of the latest wireless technologies compounding what is already there). Its influence is now all-pervasive and that is not good. In the 20th century, background EMF radiation increased by more than 1,000 times-and it's growing faster now than ever before.
The crown chakra isn't able to keep up with this rate of increase of harmful environmental energies that adversely effects our brains and bodies whether or not we know that this damaging assault is going on.
So I'm going along with the city councilors who are saying such "asinine things" (your words, Zane) as (that the Wi-Fi issue) "merits deeper consideration."
RICHARD DEAN JACOB
SANTA FE
CHECK THE FACTS
Tin hats off to Zane's World for giving us the knee-jerk pronouncements of an art major, an unnamed scientist regarding Wi-Fi microwave safety.
In the spirit of balanced reporting, one might want to mention that GJ Hyland, a prominent biophysicist, reviewed, in The Lancet, animal experiments showing that "weak" microwave signals can affect the brain's chemical balance and the immune system, cause seizures and damage the blood-brain barrier. Hyland is just one of many scientists (see the Benevento Resolution, or bioinitiative.org) who have gone on record to warn people that there is convincing evidence of massive biological harm being caused by cell phone towers.
Wi-Fi radiation is usually slightly stronger than a cell phone tower, and empirically it seems to be more damaging, either due to the shorter wavelength or the different pulse structure. Although a few people react immediately, for most people the effects of the gradual nerve damage become apparent only gradually, beginning with poor sleep, fatigue, persistent headaches and the inability to think clearly.
WILLIAM J BRUNO, PHD
BIOPHYSICIST
SANTA FE
GREEN PRAISE
Thank you for running such a wide-ranging feature suggesting so many different ways to act ecologically [
Cover story, April 16: "The Green Team"
]. From Bianca Encinas' environmental justice activism to Consuelo Bokum's long-range planning to everyone in between, there's clearly something for everybody in the work of saving civilization from itself.
For the record I have two brief clarifications:
1) Although I have a degree in landscape architecture, I am not, according to New Mexico law, a "landscape architect." I am a landscape designer who focuses on ecological and aesthetically pleasing outdoor spaces.
2) It was always, technically, legal to recycle your graywater
in this state. The new law I supported simply made using graywater safe and affordable. For more information go to:
nmenv.state.nm.us/fod/LiquidWaste/graywater.html
.
MELISSA A MCDONALD
SANTA FE PERMACULTURE
SANTA FE
