Publisher’s Note: As Vermont “Opens” after weeks of US government WHO/CDC imposted COVID-19 “Quarantine / Lockdown,” Vermonters are hearing more calls for “robust statewide broadband networks” to “enhance” statewide connectivity. Certainly, as anyone traveling across Vermont with a mobile phone will attest, improving Vermont’s telecommunications network is vital. HOW Vermont chooses to do so is a question worth discussing. Promised new 5G technology – the so-called “smart gridded” “Internet of Things” – is being heralded as the next generation of broadband, part of the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” We’ve tracked the debates around 5G for several years, and Arthur Firstenberg’s new Chelsea Green published book INVISIBLE RAINBOW: A HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY AND LIFE, is perhaps the most important book of the moment to read on the subject. While many dismiss the potential public health impacts of 5G technology on the living biosphere as a “conspiracy theory,” mounting evidence about the toxicity of globally deployed electromagnetic radiation on all living creatures – “beings of frequency” – suggests otherwise. Fiber optic cables, meanwhile, offer a more safe “buried” high speed telecom alternative to 5G waves traveling in powerful pulsed frequencies across the Earth’s surface. As Facebook and the Lords of the Cloud move to censor online conversations about the potential health impacts of 5G as “conspiracy theory,”. this NEW REPUBLIC article by independent journalist Christopher Ketcham explores the question “Is 5G Gonna Kill Us All?”
