ABSTRACT
Electrical pollution is the permeation of the environment with undesirable static and alternating electric and magnetic fields. The undesirable fields may be of natural origin, but most often they are man made. Man has been surrounded by the earth’s magnetic field, the naturally occurring electrostatic fields and those fields created by lightning and wind, and by electromagnetic radiation generated by the sun. Electrical pollution is different from other types of pollution such as air, water and noise pollution, in two ways. Firstly, it is almost always invisible and secondly, there are sometimes therapeutic effects. One can see, smell, feel and taste air and water pollution, and hear and feel noise pollution, all in disagreeable ways. Two major exceptions to invisibility are the electrical discharge and the warmth caused by the high-level radio-frequency and microwave fields used in heat therapy.
