Here we publicise a letter written by Richard Brinton to Good Energy who, with others, have been promoting the installation of smart meters. Many questions. Many unanswered, least of all by the electricity companies promoting them.
The letter is reproduced below, with thanks for it being shared. It raises many very important questions.
To Good Energy –
In response to your email ‘Smarten up your home’ with a smart meter —
Are smart meters actually good for our health?
That is a question so many don’t ask — especially those promoting them from financial incentives — and it is apparently not being asked by Good Energy.
So much nowadays is governed by money, by saving money, by promise of increased profits, by added ‘convenience’ etc. Smart phones, smart meters, smart technology, smart roads, smart (computerised) justice… How much of that is really, I mean really ‘smart’?
So little is asked: how is this affecting my health? My well-being?
Wouldn’t that be even smarter question to ask?
“From the time [the smart meter] was turned on, I could not walk around in my flat, I could not write an email, I could not think and I could not sleep. It was an absolute nightmare until it was switched off.” A UK resident
With smart meters this is especially the case.
I draw your attention to a few links outlining many health questions
https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/11/smart-meters-and-cell-damage-pulsed-em-radiation-our-health-risk
https://thewhiterose.uk/worldwide-testimonies-about-smart-meters/
https://cellphonetaskforce.org/smart-meter-health-complaints/
https://lovetechnologies.net/smart-meters-2/
“My mother died of a massive brain tumor caused by a row of six Smart Meters outside her condo, on the wall where the head of her bed was. We discovered this after she had already passed. You can imagine my shock and horror at that realization.” Jeanne Thompson writes from California
There is more.
Even if you think, ‘well, maybe but maybe not – it’s not 100% conclusive’ — Just think: if there are already questions, and it has to do with your and my health, or your child’s health, shouldn’t we be using the precautionary principle??
And not promoting for someone’s financial gain.
Margaretha Tierney writes from Australia that she became sick two weeks after a smart meter was installed and was sick for five years until she had it moved off her house.
Good energy is supposed to be concerned for the health of the planet. Is it also concerned for the health of us human beings?
The two would seem to go together.
Let’s stop promoting the wireless technologies until… one could say until proven safe. Actually, I don’t – from the evidence I’ve seen – think it can be proven safe. Of course, some of us will be more sensitive than others. Electrosensitivity, I believe it’s called. Estimated affecting anywhere between 5-15% of the population. I think we are moving over the border of wireless radiation overdose where even more will be affected, and at first not know what it is that’s causing it, as the smart meter radiation will be added to the mobile phone radiation, which will be added to the cordless phone radiation, added to the mast radiation — and so it accumulates. Cumulative effect from multiple directions.
Jennifer Wood writes from West Virginia that “I have literally known thousands of people over the past nine years or so who became so ill when smart meters were installed in their homes that they had to move just as I did.”
Less than 5% of the population are in wheelchairs, yet look at the efforts made over the past decades to pay attention to and accommodate wheelchair users. Will we do the same for those 5-15% sensitive to radiation from all our smart devices?
Let’s err on the side of… health! Let’s even be an active promoter of it!
Thank you for reading this.
Yours very sincerely
Richard Brinton