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36 Ongoing Risk Assessment bladder cancer and melanoma.” From when electricity We are in the midst of an invisible and silent plague of _ was first generated to the introduction of AM radio pandemic proportions that has been woven into our (1920s), radar (1940s), FM radio and TV (1950s), everyday lives. Dirty electricity is in virtually every | computers (1970s), mobile phones (1980s), and wireless building, whether it be our homes, schools, workplaces —_ technologies and compact fluorescent lighting (2000s), or hospitals. Energy-efficient appliances and _ artificially created EMR is the most likely environmental equipment are amongst the culprits that create dirty stress. electricity. Dr Magda Havas, Associate Professor of Artificially created EMR may also be the underlying Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University, menace in the tobacco smoking and asbestos crises. Canada, reports that many houses with solar panels Hallberg and Johansson reported that exposure to ave very high levels of dirty electricity’ Wind turbines _ radiowaves (artificially created EMR) appears to be as big can also generate dirty electricity, which is then a factor in causing lung cancer as cigarette smoking, and that ransferred along the grid. deaths due to asbestosis were not known until after the If these EMFs released a visible substance on us, we 1960s despite the fact that asbestos had been used as a would comprehend very quickly the attack on our body building material since the end of the 19th century.” and that dirty electricity is creating We cannot afford to be avoc with our immune systems. unsuspecting recipients of this Even though we cannot see it and artificial electromagnetic radiation most of us cannot feel it, dirty which has been newly introduced in electricity is affecting all of us. such a short period of our history. Removing dirty electricity has seen If these EMFs Associate Professor Olle Johansson, of cases of multiple sclerosis improve O8 the Department of Neuroscience at dramatically and even go into released a visible the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, remission, and has also resulted in substance on us, commented that today no one would asthmatics using inhalers less often.”! we would consider having a_ radioactive Some diabetics are discovering that wristwatch with glowing digits (as you hen me in yovels are being comprehend very cor din re OS) having your artificially raised in dirty electrica . children's shoes fitted in a strong X- environments. In 2004, Dave Stetzer, quickly the attack ray machine (as you could in the president of stetre Flecric ang on our body and 1940s), keeping eau in open t Havas presented to the : oe rays on your desk (as scientists their research showing the that dirty electricity did in the 1930s) or X-raying each difference between the blood is creating havoc other at garden parties (as sugar level in a dirty electrical . : physicians did in the 1920s).* with our immune systems. environment (a measurement of These examples relate to 36) and one that was filtered (a ionising radiation; apart from measurement of nine).” nuclear fallout, we have a choice Autism is now seen as the whether to expose ourselves to it fastest-growing developmental or not. disability. Dr Havas reported that Many different types of a recent pilot research study has artificially created radiation have shown higher rates of babies been woven into our daily lives. born with autism where the It is awareness that will bring mothers’ sleeping locations had high levels of radio- understanding of the different types of radiation so we frequency EMR.” can make our own informed choices on what we are Children who have leukaemia or are in recovery have _ willing to be exposed to and what we must avoid. poorer survival rates if exposure to extremely low — School teachers and principals alike must be educated frequency EMF levels is high.* It follows that all ill and on this most important health issue so that measures recovering patients should be aware of their exposure to can be put into place to ensure that they and our these fields. children are not at risk in a dirty electrical environment, Lichtenstein et al. concluded from their study of for dirty electricity has been found to be especially identical twins that environmental factors are the prevalent in environments with concentrated initiating event in the majority of cancers.” On studying fluorescent lights and computers. Employers and cancer trends in the 20th century, Hallberg and employees alike must understand that their workplace Johansson reported that there is a common must also be protected. People in their own homes environmental stress that accelerates several forms of | must also protect themselves from modern equipment cancer—colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, that also generates dirty electricity. 36 bladder cancer and melanoma.” From when electricity was first generated to the introduction of AM radio (1920s), radar (1940s), FM radio and TV (1950s), computers (1970s), mobile phones (1980s), and wireless technologies and compact fluorescent lighting (2000s), artificially created EMR is the most likely environmental atenan We we would comprehend very quickly the attack on our body and that dirty electricity is creating havoc with our immune systems. NEXUS ¢ 23 If these EMFs released a visible substance on us, OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com