“The Invisible Rainbow, A History of Electricity and Life,” by Arthur Firstenberg, is a book I am interested in reading and it’s coming soon to a library near you. I offered to buy it (through The Bookstore), and the Haines Library said yes, we’ll accept it. I made this offer after two recent local events.

On June 22, the borough assembly voted unanimously to approve the lease of land for a self-supporting communications tower out Lutak. On May 27, this newspaper published an article titled “Lutak could get cell service,” in which only one out of three Lutak locals interviewed expressed concern for the effects of, and no need for, this 5G cell tower. The other two say hooray!

And though the article included a quote from the World Health Organization regarding adverse health effects, for me it read along the lines of, “Damaging to human health? No way! Move along, nothing to see here.”

That’s 16 out of 18 thumbs-up in our small town. What’s up with that? Are so few Haines-ians so unaware of the proliferation and harms of man-made electromagnetic fields?

Let me help, let me study more myself and let me support others also interested in looking deeper at this phenomenon. It will be a month or more before the book is on the shelf; please check it out.

Especially in the U.S., money and power are aligned with technologies, changing humanity from the inside out like “glyphosated food” and radio frequencies. What’ll it be, human beings or robots, for you?

Evelyna Vignola

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