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Small, portable, stylish: How cell phones may bring death of bees
Guest Voice
Bart Cubrich
Issue date: 8/7/07 Section: Opinion
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Bart Cubrich is a freshman Gateway staff writer and an avid environmentalist.
Small. Portable. Stylish.
This is what the new BlackBerry phone boasts, as well as e-mail, IM, web browser, camera, media player, GPS, touch-ball mouse and an organizer/planner. Sounds great right?
Unfortunately, it also comes with something the cell phone companies won't tell you about.
It's called radio frequency radiation, and it is known to painfully inflict symptoms on people living 100 meters from the towers such as: dizziness, nausea, memory loss, inability to concentrate, irritability, rise in blood pressure, pressure behind the eyeballs, joint pains, high-pitched noises in their ears, itchy systemic rash and even internal bleeding. This is known as radio wave sickness.
I think one of the major issues here is that anyone is susceptible to these effects. It is not fair for people who don't use cell phones, whether they are too young or just don't need them, to be afflicted because everyone else wants the conveniences of a quick chat or text.
But, these are not the only problem cell phones cause and, in my opinion, are not the worst. Millions of bees are dying, just leaving their hives never to return. These along with a plethora of other animal life, particularly those that fly are quickly dying off.
Bees are not weak creature, even leaving their hives in the dead of winter with relatively low deaths. Bees use the earth's magnetic field, in correspondence to the sun, and cell phones disturb this. The bees fly away and starve to death.
This never came as a surprise, after all cell phones a very new invention, if you consider that cars are a century old. We are still discovering their effect on the environment daily.
So how does this affect me? Bees pollinate plants, trees and flowers. They are not the only creatures to do this, but they do most of the work. Farmers use movable beehives to pollinate their crop.
Small. Portable. Stylish.
This is what the new BlackBerry phone boasts, as well as e-mail, IM, web browser, camera, media player, GPS, touch-ball mouse and an organizer/planner. Sounds great right?
Unfortunately, it also comes with something the cell phone companies won't tell you about.
It's called radio frequency radiation, and it is known to painfully inflict symptoms on people living 100 meters from the towers such as: dizziness, nausea, memory loss, inability to concentrate, irritability, rise in blood pressure, pressure behind the eyeballs, joint pains, high-pitched noises in their ears, itchy systemic rash and even internal bleeding. This is known as radio wave sickness.
I think one of the major issues here is that anyone is susceptible to these effects. It is not fair for people who don't use cell phones, whether they are too young or just don't need them, to be afflicted because everyone else wants the conveniences of a quick chat or text.
But, these are not the only problem cell phones cause and, in my opinion, are not the worst. Millions of bees are dying, just leaving their hives never to return. These along with a plethora of other animal life, particularly those that fly are quickly dying off.
Bees are not weak creature, even leaving their hives in the dead of winter with relatively low deaths. Bees use the earth's magnetic field, in correspondence to the sun, and cell phones disturb this. The bees fly away and starve to death.
This never came as a surprise, after all cell phones a very new invention, if you consider that cars are a century old. We are still discovering their effect on the environment daily.
So how does this affect me? Bees pollinate plants, trees and flowers. They are not the only creatures to do this, but they do most of the work. Farmers use movable beehives to pollinate their crop.
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