Mutation, Radiation, and The World Today

Seldom do sane adults think about the boogie man, invisible creatures, or the monsters that could be creeping in the night, cloaked in darkness. However, we should heed the things that attack us in broad daylight, the things that can rage war without us even knowing-radiation. According to researchers of Chernobyl, there are many things still going on that we haven't even noticed. I've always been a believer that it's the things we don't see that are the most harmful, and I was apparently onto something with that theory. In fact, the birds there have brains that are 5% smaller, just because of the radiation that is lingering. 48 species have been noted with this decreased brain size! Besides just shortening the growth of the brain, it is also causing many bird embryo's not to survive at all. 

 It's scary to think what is going on beyond the birds, it has to be affecting thousands of living organisms, and changing the world on a fairly large scale. There has to be something that can be done, and I believe our generation is just the one to do it.

Though the word radiation immediately brings horrific things to mind, many people don't understand that we are actually exposed to many forms of radiation every day- in fact could not live without it. Merriam-Webster defines radiation as energy radiated in the form of waves or particles, with the word radiate meaning to proceed in a direct line to or from a center. Examples of everyday radiation we are exposed to are sunlight, radio waves, radiation from the tv, microwave, computer, cell phone... Yet no one ever thinks about all of these small things that are surrounding us, just the big crisis like Chernobyl. 

Personally I believe actions should be taken, there is no wonder that everyday there is a new disease or illness  discovered-we're creating them ourselves, and doing nothing to protect ourselves when we are constantly surrounded by all of these emissions. We are told that these everyday objects are emitting harmless waves, that our bodies absorb them without harm, but I find that hard to swallow. Apparently I'm not the only one. Amy Worthington of Rense.com did an article over the fact that cell phone emissions might actually be addicted to the brain, which would make sense with all of these people who constantly have them glued to their heads, and all of the younger generation with their fingers and eyes stuck on the letters keys while texting.  She claims that cell phone's should be labeled with a cancer warning since :"The Journal of Cellular Biochemistry reports that these frequencies cause cancer and other diseases by interfering with cellular DNA and its repair mechanisms. Microwave promotes rapid cell aging. Italian scientists have recently demonstrated that cell phone radiation makes cancerous cells grow aggressively. Cordless phones marked 900 megahertz or 2.4 gigahertz emit the same dangerous microwave radiation as cell phones."

Honestly, how many of us are constantly using some sort of electrical device? I think that the younger generations especially need to start taking notice of these things, and working to lessen their effects, before we all have five percent smaller brains.