Waves of the Future

By: Lauren Fadiman

For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.

(Lauren Fadiman / Jacobin)

In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of cell phone towers were torched around the world in what looked like a series of offerings to an angry god. But the arsonists themselves would tell you the threat is entirely man-made, half in your pocket and half in the air: cell phones with 5G […]

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In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of cell phone towers were torched around the world in what looked like a series of offerings to an angry god. But the arsonists themselves would tell you the threat is entirely man-made, half in your pocket and half in the air: cell phones with 5G […]

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In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of cell phone towers were torched around the world in what looked like a series of offerings to an angry god. But the arsonists themselves would tell you the threat is entirely man-made, half in your pocket and half in the air: cell phones with 5G […]

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In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of cell phone towers were torched around the world in what looked like a series of offerings to an angry god. But the arsonists themselves would tell you the threat is entirely man-made, half in your pocket and half in the air: cell phones with 5G […]

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