It was a beautiful sunny day in 1982.
Jason was 16 years old and listening to ‘One Perfect Day’, about to hit the surf at Maroubra beach, south of Sydney.
It was a surfers dream, nice waves, offshore winds. The sand banks were perfect.
But as he paddled out to the breaks he was shocked at what he
saw.
He found himself surrounded by not just the sea but a sea of debris – condoms, toilet paper and excrement.
When he got home it took him 30 minutes and nearly a full bar of soap to wash off the stench.
He decided to do something about it.
He started a small campaign group and
went from being something of a delinquent to a hard-working student eventually graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science.
He landed a job with the New South Wales Department of Health.
But his rebellious tendencies were not to be tamed.
Outraged by the water pollution statistics which the Department of Health refused to publish,
he leaked them to the media – his action was instrumental in forcing the government to deal with the water pollution issue.
Whilst studying for his Masters degree he started researching the effects of lead in paint.
It was killing dogs and poisoning children.
At the time the government were blaming it on lead in
petrol.
He realized the main problem was lead in paint. Again his actions were instrumental in a change in government policy.
Seeing an opportunity for making money by offering solutions that help people, he invested in hand-held spectrum analyzers that tested for lead.
He went on to build his business fortune on the technology used
to address various environmental health problems.
In 2015 in listening to an interview with neurosurgeon Dr. Jack Kruse he stumbled across the electromagnetic field (EMF) issue and had a ‘Aha’ moment.
His mother, who had passed away a few years ago, had suffered ill health for most of her life.
She was frequently
bedridden and very sensitive to EMFs and certain chemicals.
He was very close to his mother and became obsessed with searching for a treatment for her.
He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, consulting top-flight medical specialists, faith healers and even shamans to help his mother. Sadly, with no success.
At about the same time
he started having his own health issues, high cholesterol, blood pressure and weight gain.
His doctor told him he was pre-diabetic and that he needed to exercise and eat more healthily.
But his research was suggesting that EMFs and light – he’d spent 20 years working in an artificially lit office bathed in wireless signals – might be the bigger culprits.
Jason Bawden-Smith says, “based on my research I believe that our immersion in artificial light and harmful electromagnetic fields constitutes one of the biggest threats to humanity”.
He calls this the ‘dark side of technology’.
The good news is that there is not just a dark side there is a
bright side too - environmental scientist and author Jason Bawden-Smith shares his solutions for dealing with EMFs and artificial light in his latest book.
