Mullumbimby: The counterculture town fighting 5
Aired on SBS TV, The Feed.
As protests on and misinformation about 5G grows around the world, many Australians are concerned the technology could pose health risks. Mullumbimby, a rural town known for counter-culture is taking a stand and has been protesting the activation of 5G technology on a Telstra owned downtown street tower.
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The fight against 5G is most definitely on.
As 5G protests and misinformation mount around the world, many Australians are concerned the next generation mobile technology could pose health risks. In fact, a recent poll by Essential revealed one in eight blame the wireless network for spreading COVID-19. Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne [See my comments on these demonstrations here], and even the rural roads of Mullumbimby, a small town frequently dubbed the “anti-vaccine capital” of Australia. A stone’s throw from Byron Bay in New South Wales, Mullumbimby is a destination with a renowned history of counterculture. “This part of Australia has a long history of standing up to big corporations”, said Tashi Lhamo, administrator for local anti-5G group Northern Rivers for Safe Technology “We’re riding on the back of what happened out at Bentley with standing up against coal seam gas, and our Byron Shire Council, they stopped fluoride in the water. We stopped McDonalds.” “There is a community here that is cohesive and they know how to stand up to big corporations.”, Tashi told The Feed.
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What I find particularly interesting is Rodney Croft’s dumbing-down take on the 5G controversy. Croft is the chair of ICNIRP and is from ACEBR. To quote:
“There is no harm associated with 5G…With all electromagnetic radiation, it really comes down to how much there is. A microwave oven uses a similar frequency to what we use for mobile phones. If the exposure is high enough, you’ll cook someone and you can kill them but we have international standards. Australia follows those and so long as you stick within them then there is no harm at all with 5G as with 4G and 3G…What we’re talking about is still the same non-ionizing radiation that we’ve had with our AM and FM radio for a long, long time. The frequency is not changing enough to make it relevant to the kind of high-frequency concerns that people are talking about.”, Rodney said.
If that is the best quasi-scientific spin Croft can come up with, that is all the more reason for concerned communities to distrust “the experts”. But don’t worry folks, Rodney reassures us that the standards are set so to we won’t be cooked – very reassuring indeed….
Don
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