Whereas
the biological health and environmental impact of a 4G/5G small cell antenna
infrastructure has never been assessed.
Whereas
current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) radiofrequency (RF) radiation safety
guidelines were established in 1996 and are thermally based only.
Whereas
current FCC RF safety guidelines do not apply to chronic non-thermal exposure
situations as with 4G/5G small cell antennas in public rights-of-way.
Whereas
the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies refuse to insure the
telecommunications industry for liability on electromagnetic fields including
wireless RF radiation.
Whereas
the insurance industry recognizes wireless radiation as a leading risk and has
placed exclusions in their policies not covering damages caused by the
pathological properties of electromagnetic radiation.
Whereas
cell phone manufacturers have in the legal section within the device instructions
to keep the phone at least 5 mm from the body.
Whereas
thousands of peer-reviewed studies, including the recently published U.S. National
Toxicology Program $30 million study, are showing a wide-range of statistically
significant DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, infertility, and many other
ailments, and are being ignored by the FCC.
Whereas
the FCC-sanctioned guidelines for public exposure to wireless radiation are based
only on the thermal effect on the temperature of the skin and do not account
for the non-thermal, non-ionizing, biological effects of wireless RF radiation.
Whereas
the FCC radiofrequency exposure limits set for the United States are 100 times
higher than countries like Russia, China, Italy, Switzerland, and most of
Eastern Europe.
Whereas
the World Health Organization (WHO) signify that wireless radiation is a Group
B Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans category, a group that includes lead,
thalidomide, and others, and some experts who sat on the WHO committee in 2011 are
now calling for it to be placed in the Group 1, which are known carcinogens,
and such information is being ignored by the FCC.
Whereas
more than 250 of the worlds leading scientists signed an appeal to the WHO and
the United Nations to protect public health from wireless RF radiation.
Whereas
the cumulative biologically damaging effects of the ever-growing numbers of
pulsed RF signals riding on the back of the electromagnetic sine waves have not
been explored.
Resolved, the City Council of _________ directs the City Administrator to communicate to Michigan's elected officials at the State government who represent the City's residents the City's support for legislation calling for an immediate moratorium on wireless infrastructure including small cell antenna installations in Michigan’s public rights-of-way until safe levels are established for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing RFR at non-thermal levels, established by independent researchers without conflicts of interest, in order to assess biological health impact of continuing the expansion of the wireless infrastructure.
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- Please copy, paste, and print the above draft resolution which was modeled after New Hampshire's bill (now a law): "Establishing a commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology."
- Hand deliver it to your local government officials.
- Ask them to please read this draft resolution and consider passing it or something similar.
- Know that we are not asking for too much when we ask for environmental and biological health impact assessments on the 4G / 5G small cell antenna infrastructure.
