A Tale of Two Cisterns

Guest Post by Diana Kordas, Samos, Greece

NGO campaigns to protect bees and other pollinators often point to pesticide use, but other countries including Greece that have not used ago-chemicals are also experiencing a decline in biodiversity.

Naturalist Diana Kordas has been documenting the damage occurring to the island’s ecosystem in Greece – since the installation of 5G. (Links to some of her previous work at bottom of post.)

“This area has no pesticides or agrochemicals.”

The number of individuals who sustain a direct relationship with nature has declined in direct proportion to screen use and industrialization.

The equinox, football, and election seasons are approaching. Which receives the most attention?

Telecommunications technology has not been tasked with protection of the environment or human health, so – it isn’t. Informed citizen scientists with direct real-world experience, including Diana Kordas in Greece, are speaking the truth about the need to safeguard Nature and ourselves.

A Tale of Two Cisterns by Diana Kordas

Insects have been declining steadily since the invention of wireless technology. When 4G came in, people all over the world stopped seeing dead insects on their car windshields. Fireflies and many other species all but disappeared. Since 5G came in, people everywhere are reporting major declines in all sorts of insects, including mosquitoes, which had not declined previously.

Since 5G was installed in 2021 on the island of Samos in Greece where we live, insect populations have plummeted. Many species we had prior to 2021 are extinct and a great many more are nearly so. Some insects are showing clear signs of DNA damage: deformities such as wing damage and miniaturization that pass on through generations. Some of these have now died out, at least locally. DNA damage doesn’t necessarily produce visible effects. The most common result of DNA damage is sterility, which will of course lead to extinction. This has been proven again and again in the laboratory by Panagopoulos et al.

For the last decade, the bane of our area has been our next-door neighbour’s cistern. It is an open breeze-block and concrete construction that sits behind his house and collects the rainwater that comes off his roof in winter. It is uncovered and unscreened. He used to use the water for his garden, but ten years ago he stopped cleaning it out regularly and stopped growing summer vegetables. The stagnant green water became a breeding ground for thousands of mosquitoes, and you could easily see the larvae wriggling around near the surface. Dragonflies used to hunt the emerging mosquitoes, and innumerable small moths drowned in the water. No amount of persuasion could induce our neighbour to do anything about this situation, even though he was forced to sit indoors with the windows closed all summer and autumn. In still weather, and when the south wind blew, the mosquitoes would come to us, making summer nights a misery.

Since 5G came in, there have gradually been fewer and fewer mosquitoes in our neighbour’s cistern. Now there are none. No larvae wriggling on the surface, and no dragonflies to hunt the emerging mosquitoes. There aren’t any more drowned moths, either. We get very few mosquitoes at night anymore, and the ones we get are our own…