Zapped by Ann Louise Gittleman

Author:Ann Louise Gittleman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

As a parent, the more you can do to set a good example with your own cell phone use—making calls on a landline at home, for example—the more likely your kids are to follow suit. Don’t be afraid to ground any child’s cell phone use—by taking it away for a day or two if she ignores reasonable rules!

Fight Wi-Fi in schools, communities—and at home. It’s easy enough to stick with or go back to wired technologies at home. It’s a little harder to protect your family when your school district or city wants everyone wireless. While schools and even cities now consider Wi-Fi de rigueur, many parents, thankfully, do not. In one suburb of Chicago, concerned parents filed suit against the Oak Park School District, claiming that constant exposure to 802.11 Hz signals could cause their children neurological harm. (They cited one Swedish study that showed that exposure caused brain damage in teenaged rats.17) In England, consumer, parent, and teacher groups have all called for a suspension of Wi-Fi in schools.18 In Santa Fe, New Mexico, a college librarian quit her job because she didn’t think that “allowing oneself to be irradiated” by Wi-Fi should be a condition of employment.19 If your school or community is considering going wireless, organize with other concerned people and use the information in this book to campaign against it.

Campaign against cell towers and antennas. For all you know, that church steeple or grain silo near your child’s school hides a cell phone tower or antenna. Or there might be one on the roof of the school itself. Go to www.antennasearch.com to find any cell towers or antennas near your child’s school. Studies have found an increase in cancer in people who live within about one-quarter of a mile of towers and antennas, so if they are this close to your child’s school, work with other parents to convince your school or school district to request that local authorities have the towers and antennas moved.

You may run into opposition, but maybe not. In September 2009, school officials made the unprecedented move to close the Fredon Township Elementary School in New Jersey, because AC magnetic field readings from the eighty-foot electrical towers carrying 230 kV lines across school property were six times the recommended safe levels set by the World Health Organization (which is still higher than most EMF experts recommend).20

The community became concerned when the local utility proposed an upgrade to the electrical system, a project that would string 500 kV transmission lines from eastern Pennsylvania to New Jersey. For the first time, readings were taken on the existing lines and the results were shocking: AC magnetic field levels averaged 19.34 mG. The WHO recommends a 3 mG threshold, while other experts recommend 1 to 2 mG.21

Fix your electrical system. To its credit, the power industry has not dismissed the possible connection between electromagnetic fields and childhood leukemia, a link first made in 1979 when researchers Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper found that children who

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