The fact that only small pockets of backlash have arisen out of 20-plus million meters installed across the country and that today backlash is taking place in Vermont well before any deployments makes me cynical.Enter Matt Levin, outreach and development director for Vermonters for a Clean Environment. The VCE is dedicated to ensuring that Vermont citizens have knowledge of and access to public deliberations by regulatory and other agencies impacting them.
I had a fruitful exchange of views on Friday with Levin and he was an able proponent for his organization's stance, which officially is to ensure an inexpensive, if not free, hard-wired alternative to a wireless smart meter. I found that reasonable.
If the total "RF load" is causing health impacts, then why pick on smart meters?
"That's not our fight right now," Levin said. "We are concerned that citizens with RF sensitivity who wish to lower their overall RF load have the right to their viewpoint. Electro-sensitivity is real."
I don't buy any of Levin's arguments, but his ability to present his case in a rational manner—again, arguments aside—was noteworthy. I'd suggest it represents the mainstreaming of the rejection of science—at least the kind practiced by government regulators—and the mainstreaming of second-guessing around smart grid. (Levin said he favored a smarter grid, particularly around its use to cut greenhouse gas emissions.)
This is not about rejecting science.
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest this represents the beginning of the mainstreaming of the rejection of getting hosed by Industrial, Scientific, and Medical radio frequencies from every corner of our daily lives.
Do you have a prescription for all that RF?