Are the benefits of 5G worth the health risks?

Re Canada’s first 5G smart campus is up and running at UBC, Nov. 9

Of course this ultra-high-speed system will charm and excite all technocrats and will be seen as progress. However, much of progress in our world is accepted and implemented without thought of the consequences for living organisms: human and otherwise.

The Earth is already littered with examples of great, practical inventions that seem to solve great practical problems and help advance the efficiency of our way of living.

Yet, the pain of the unanticipated consequences are huge: global warming, pollution with plastics everywhere, toxic materials in our food, etc.

How is this unintended stupidity going to be stopped? I urge you to help halt this headlong rush toward unholy progress.

Installing the 5G system puts transmitters into space and requires a dense network of receivers on the ground. Such infrastructure will be extremely costly.

Considerable information already exists about the dangers of 5G. I read about the installation of 5G over Geneva, which immediately interfered with people’s ability to sleep, and health complaints were not far behind.

I am not a scientist and will not elaborate on the dangers of 5G, which involve health and, surprisingly, the impossibility of forecasting weather. But I’ve got a thick book with transcripts of lectures on the subject. Yvonne Philpott, Richmond Hill