Critical Seminar on Insects and EMF: Join us October 18 in Oslo

We thought electricity and wireless would give the environment “a free lunch”. Now we know it’s not like that…

Einar Flydal – 01oct2025

For decades, I worked with “data in school”, with telecom and ICT as a researcher, “missionary” and strategy advisor – including at Telenor and at NTNU. I thought that ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) could save the environment. Then I had to realize that unfortunately this was not the case.

We just don’t like to know…

That is why I have invited the environmental organizations in Norway to a seminar at the House of Literature in Oslo on Saturday 18 October from 10:00-15:30.

And that is why I also hope that they will forward the invitation to their members as soon as possible. The environmental movement needs a new orientation!

Because there is a paradigm shift underway, and the environmental movement is not on the scene. It concentrates on the established threats: land use, pesticides, air pollution and monoculture.

The topic of the seminar is the death of insects and the connection with the growth in our use of electrical energy – both for electricity and radio waves. The connection has been known for many decades, but hushed up or dismissed by strong money power and specialists in obsolete knowledge and especially viewing through skewed glasses.

It is true that the subject is getting higher and higher on the international agenda, but far too slowly within the authorities. The graph below shows how the growth in research articles on electromagnetic fields and insects has grown over the years (red), and how many are about influences through sensory organs for magnetism:

Why are insects so important? Without insects, we cannot survive, and many of the damaged mechanisms that researchers find are general to all life: They apply to insects, bacteria and fish, as well as to us, the dog, and the birds around us.

Knowledge is needed. We have to accept that

Wireless radio – including mobile phones, Wi-Fi, and all sorts of transmitters – has gone from being fantastically promising tools for welfare to becoming one of the greatest sources of natural damage of our time.
Heavy development of high-voltage grids causes environmental damage not only through land use, but directly on the biology of the electromagnetic fields they create.

So now I have gathered researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway with expertise in this field:

Else Nordhagen, ICT researcher who is currently publishing a new book on the topic, gives us the basic understanding we need in 10 minutes, and then we listen to Sam J England, Daniel Favre, Kim Horsevad and Arne Follestad. In short and pointed posts, they explain what the research knows with reasonable certainty – and then some. They present material that is unknown to most biologists and medics. And they speak for most people.

Several of the environmental movement’s “grand old men” will also participate and draw the consequences of the knowledge they have now acquired in this field:

Sverre Sivertsen, former director of NVE and later engaged in Motvind,
Jørn Siljeholm, environmental chemist and former head of the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, and
Trygve Tamburstuen, Labour Party politician, former State Secretary in the Petroleum and Energy and Industry Dept. and businessman in telecom, among other things.

There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.

Details about the speakers and the event can be found here:

If what is presented here is correct, it has major consequences for the Green Shift:

Do the strategies and instruments need to be rethought?
Are there other solutions we need to look for?

Instead of closing my eyes, I have chosen to gather knowledge and disseminate it – for more than 15 years full-time. What you will hear at the seminar are top-class lectures.

The seminar will take place in the Wergeland Hall at the House of Literature in Oslo on 18 October from 10 am to 3:30 pm. Registration takes place here, whether you want to sit in the hall, or follow online.

I hope to see many people interested in the environment. I can promise an interesting, entertaining and sensational day! . And then I hope that they alert neighbours and friends… – Seminar poster

Einar Flydal, the 1. October 2025

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