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Reports severe family breathing problems, headaches and organ illness attributed to a nearby tower, prompting family members to leave home. Also reports dying trees, loss of bees and failed fruit production, and criticizes siting and expansion decisions.
- Towers & siting: “For the past six years, I have lived 40 feet away from a cell tower.”
- Housing, work & access barriers: “He had to move out to save his life.”
- Neurological symptoms & sleep: “The headaches are so severe that they offer no respite”
- Environmental effects: “All the bees have been wiped out”
- Children & vulnerable groups: “even though he is still a minor, he no longer lives with his parents”
ORIGINAL COMMENT · UNEDITED TEXT
I spent a long time wondering whether it was even worth writing anything, given that it is well known that electromagnetic waves are harmful not only to humans but also to animals, insects, and the natural world—they are lethal to us all. We are destroying everything that surrounds us. Nevertheless, I want to highlight how our health and lives are being ruined. For the past six years, I have lived 40 feet away from a cell tower. It was erected despite legal regulations prohibiting it—but such rules pose no obstacle for brazen corporations. What is it like to live near a cell tower? My older son had to flee our home after three years because he was suffocating and unable to breathe. Whenever he left for school, he felt perfectly fine; but whenever he returned home for the holidays or breaks, the nightmare would begin—to such an extent that he had to leave the family home for good, as his breathing attacks were so severe they became life-threatening. Two years later, my younger son began suffering from such intense suffocation that he had to leave the house at night just to save his life. Today, even though he is still a minor, he no longer lives with his parents, because our home poses a direct threat to his health and life. Why this conclusion? Because for the past four years, every time he left the house, he experienced immense relief—the breathing attacks would simply not occur whenever he was away from home or our own yard. He had to move out to save his life. We, his parents, tried to hold on for quite a long time—we loved our home and this place too much to simply leave—but today, we too are fleeing; the impact of the waves has become so unbearable that we can no longer function. As for me—the person writing this—my kidneys, liver, and pancreas have all failed. The headaches are so severe that they offer no respite, neither by day nor by night. And it’s not just my family’s life that has been destroyed. We live in a protected area—designated "conservation land"—yet that didn't stop criminals from a telecommunications company, in collusion with city officials, from cutting down dozens of trees to erect a tower. The tower quickly began killing the young trees surrounding the site; now, the area is littered with the stumps of dead trees. It’s impossible to take a photograph right now—the leaves have fallen, so the truly horrifying sight isn't as visible. In our own yard, we have over a dozen fruit trees and bushes—yet for the past four years, there hasn't been a single piece of fruit—not one!—despite thousands of blossoms on every tree. What happened? All the bees have been wiped out; even the ones we tried to bring in couldn't survive. Nature destroyed, insects gone, human health ruined—all while the company reaps profits from our tragedy. This is the kind of state we are forced to live in. Today, these towers are being expanded threefold, even though the conditions for such expansion were strictly defined—yet no one adheres to them. After all, who would care about people or nature? One can only hope that the evil being perpetrated will eventually catch up with those who cause it—let’s hope so!
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