Posted by Jinna on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/What-jobs-can-you-do-with-EHS-tp4031790p4031867.html

Sorry to know you got so sensitive...

Last year, I went to Brazil, visit relatives.

My parents live at the beach side, a sort of small town, for Brazilian standards.

Not long ago, it was still primary forest. They built their beach house there, now it became their main house.

I have to confess that I had no symptoms of ES there. Nothing.

Even though mobile phones work there (badly, so to say), I guess the proximity to the sea, iodine in the air, extensive time grounded (walking barefoot on tiles or beach)... makes  a huge difference.

The feeling was different: when I looked at the poor town, garbage here and there, it did not look pretty to the eyes, used to see the spotless clean Switzerland.

But the impression it made to my inner senses, was that that spot of Brazil was SO CLEAN. It took me some days to get used to the inner quietness.

I spent 2 weeks there, then came back here. The moment I entered the Swiss trains, and saw the 'beautiful clean green' landscape, it felt like DOOMSDAY.

The difference was pretty clear: here, your eyes say: it's clean, beautiful, but my inner senses say: it's damn polluted, all grey, awful, like prison here. It feels like a heavy blanket on top of our heads in the sky.

There my eyes say: 'it's dirty, polluted, not nice, but inside, my feelings say, it's pure, crystalline!'

The place my parents live is close to a big national reserve. Civilization will come there, one day, I think, but it's still very 'behind'.

Few live there, only old retired people or some other people with local shops. Most houses get full only in holidays, vacations..

I think it's hard to find such places in Europe. You gotta go to underdeveloped places, I suppose.

I also lived in Sumatra, West Sumatra, in a village for my research.
Electricity had  just come there, the time I lived there 20 years ago. I'm sure it is still okay to live there.

I also have a Russian friend, who got very ill while living in Paris. He could not stand the electrosmog there.

Now, he lives in Oregon, he said, no mobile phone works at his house. He lives at the feet of a mountain chain...

I still have contact with him, and he's pretty happy to be where he is now. One house in the middle of nothing.