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Cell Phone Towers are taking over The
Planet:
Are we Safe?
Nowadays, cellular phone signals increase and become even
clearer wherever you go. The clear wireless connection your
mobile phone has allows you not only to talk to people
seamlessly but also makes you transmit data and
communication in ways you’ve never imagined before. However,
this is entirely impossible without the cellular phone
towers that are built almost anywhere and that are the only
means of getting the data sent to anyone using a cellular
unit. But what do we exactly pay for not having a research
done on the effects of the almost ubiquitous cell towers we
have all throughout our land? How does a cell tower exactly
work? And what does its impact show to all the areas where
they are placed? These questions are somehow already simple
enough to be answered by anyone who is concerned by the
issue of cell tower infrastructures. However, the lack of
research done on the said topic makes it necessary for us to
write something more about it.
Tower Power Health Concern
The main issue being linked to cell towers nowadays revolves
mainly around the hyperelectrosensitivity of people to the
electronic waves/ electromagnetic fields(EMF) transmitted by
the cell towers. In the main aspect of electromagnetic
fields, an elaborate report by the World Health Organization
(WHO) noted that anxiety and speculation have already spread
among different groups of people as they are being gradually
exposed to an increasing level and degrees of EMF through
the development of technology advancement. In fact, when WHO
established the International EMF Project in 1996, the
status of most of the towers nowadays were thoroughly
reassessed as many people are suffering from many kinds of
health abnormalities (such as nausea, tinnitus, dizziness,
migraines) that most doctors consider as the effects of
long-time mobile phone use. As a response to protect public
health and address this public concern, WHO called for a
collaborative academic research on this subject if we do not
all want to end up being deaf because of something we may
have avoided.
The Issue of Land
According to legislation on lease with regards to cell
tower, the landowner of where the tower is built should
retain the ability to sell the property in the future
without affecting the lease. Property ownership in this
context sometimes gives the residents a bit of a problem but
the really timely concern most people have right now is the
fact that cell towers are still constructed in places that
should otherwise be allotted for other social enhancements
and neighborhood systems. Many schools, churches and even
residential homes located in most unpopulated areas have
been sold to cell tower companies and many areas now don’t
even have the simple luxury of a good playground and other
basic components a neighborhood should really consist of. To
avoid such a case, landowners and legislators should always
acknowledge not only their right of ownership but also their
corporate responsibility in selling lands for cell tower
infrastructures with all these social factors considered.
These are only two of the many complaints and problems
mounting against cell towers around. There are still a lot
of health and ownership issues about tower infrastructures
that affect every single citizen and every kind of
lifestyle. Unless we help to find ways to augment them
without entirely condemning the contribution of cellular
technology, we are definitely in a great pile of trouble.
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