Technophobia, phobia towards new technologies has been recorded since the dawn of human civilization. A percentage of people rejects technological developments, expressing concerns that instead of solving problems, it causes new, more and possibly dangerous.
of Constantine Kappa
In modern times, technophobia is traced to anxiety and dislike for electronic devices such as computers, mobile phones, and so on. and in particular for the infrastructures necessary for their operation, such as antennas, base stations etc. and the radiation they emit for their operation.
Science gives the answers
The questions that may arise are many, not only from technophobic individuals but also from anyone, as the lack of knowledge, lack of information or disinformation about the operation of modern electronic devices is diffuse. Typical is the example of electromagnetic radiation that finds numerous applications (radio, TV, mobile phone, base station antennas, radon, X-rays and ultraviolet radiation).
The only answer to these reasonable concerns is science. Radiation that is capable of breaking the atoms of matter, breaking the DNA chains and potentially causing carcinogenicity , is called ionizing radiation and is stronger than visible sunlight (this includes solarium, diagnostic and therapeutic radiation, ultraviolet and cosmic radiation and radioactivity). Very weak radiation that does not cause atom breakage, DNA breakage and biological damage is called non-ionizing radiation. This includes visible sunlight, infrared radiation, mobile phone radiation, mobile phone antennas, radio, television, weather and other services, Wi-Fi, local area networks and antennas. Indicatively, to give an order of magnitude, mobile telephony (phones and base stations) operates at 1500 to 2000 times lower than infrared radiation (which the human body emits physiologically simply because we exist) and 100,000 to 300,000 times lower than visible sunlight.
Scientifically, these data would be more than enough to inform citizens if there was no claim by individual, unrelated scientists that the radio waves of cellular antennas are capable of causing neoplasms, leukemia and other biological damage. These claims have been dismantled by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other relevant bodies such as the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), the SCENIHR, the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Risks (SCENIHR) the International Cancer Research Organization (IARC), the American Cancer Association (ACS) and dozens of others.
The three major organizations, IARC, NTP, EPA, which deal with the categorization of carcinogens, do not include mobile base stations in them, with the World Health Organization confirming the exception in June 2017 (www.amta.org. au / newsletters / EME.Update, 23.06.2017). It should be noted, however, that IARC, for conservative reasons, classifies mobile phones (as antennae almost in contact with the human body) in the list of harmful agents for humans in category 2B "maybe carcinogenic" together with coffee, aloe vera and the profession of cleaning agent and furniture maker, while red meat (beef, pork, etc.) and the profession of hairdresser are classified as a higher risk category 2A "possibly carcinogenic".
Misinformation and incomplete information are confusing
Indicative of the lack of information from the relevant bodies is the finding of the World Health Organization that the fear of the citizens due to precisely the incomplete or incorrect information hierarchically is a) mobile telephony b) X-rays c) radon and last d) ultraviolet radiation .
According to WHO, the correct order is the reverse: a) ultraviolet radiation; b) radon; c) X-rays and d) mobile telephony, with radon according to the UN Scientific Committee for Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) be responsible for 47% of the annual dose of ionizing radiation absorbed by the average human and cause carcinogenicity in the lungs (category 1A of carcinogenic agents). Ultraviolet radiation is also responsible for the increasing incidence of malignant melanomas. Citizens should be aware that sunscreens (even the highest protection factor) protect the skin from ultraviolet radiation A and B but not from the most dangerous C and take protective measures.
In this context, and with the argument of "absolute safety from electromagnetic (non-ionizing) radiation, part of the population asks that the antennas be removed from the urban fabric and placed in adjacent hills and mountains, ignoring that if we install it a mobile base station on the mountain, we will have to provide mobile phones hundreds to thousands times the power to send a signal to the station and communicate with our interlocutor.
Instead, the closer we bring the antenna, the slower we talk to it, the more whisper we answer, the less power and Watts are needed for the same signal , the less the cell phone and the antenna radiate. It should be noted at this point that mainly target mobile stations emit radio waves at watts (Watts) while the radio and television are powered by watts and MW. Just because of this power difference, wherever we are, as long as we are exposed to electromagnetic radiation from all mobile base stations around us, we are exposed by a radio or television station. As confirmed by the most recent data released byThe Hellenic Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), concerning the electromagnetic radiation measurements carried out in 2016 at mobile telephone antenna sites and the first year of operation of the National Observatory of Electromagnetic Fields (GPL), the prices recorded by all measuring stations are much lower, up to 100 times the established limits of safe public exposure.
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