Mobile Radiations Causing Loss of Biodiversity: An Overview
Author : Kantisree Goswami
Abstract :
The number of mobile phone users is increasing as the time passes and the technology keeps on evolving to meet the requirement of higher data rates than the previous generation. This in turns leaves a huge harmful biological impact on the biodiversity. The EMR emitted by the mobile antennas used at the base stations effects the cell structure of the living beings. To meet the demand of higher speed data transfer, we have now been used to 4G sets, instead of the older mobile sets without internet or with slow speed internet facilities. This is being even much more harmful, for both the flora & fauna, causing immense loss of biodiversity. As we know, any living organism in our mother Earth, has its own unique role in the ecosystem; so loss of any one will be disturbing the normal ecological balance, thus ultimately leading to environmental crisis. Nowadays, we are suffering from such crisis due to various reasons, mobile radiations being a primary one. Some recent studies have shown that due to mobile radiations, plants and animals are suffering equally, for example, loss of coconut yield & reduction in coconut water, sudden death & decline in the populations of sparrow, starling & many other birds, squirrels, and many more to add. We also know that experimental test of 5G radiation (which might come in future) in Netherlands in 2018, caused unexpected death of a large number of birds. Therefore, these is the high time that we should be aware of this curse of globalization & urbanization, and try to restrict ourselves, regarding use of such high frequency radiations, as much as feasible.
Keywords :
Mobile phone, EMR, biodiversity, ecological balance, environmental crisis, globalization
