Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The effort to find a replacement for the dying climate crisis has plumbed new depths.
Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
Erin Brockovich
Thu 18 Mar 2021 21.23 AEDTThe chemicals to blame for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything
The end of humankind? It may be coming sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility at an alarming rate around the globe. A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, finds that sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973. Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that sink in. That would mean no babies. No reproduction. No more humans. Forgive me for asking: why isn’t the UN calling an emergency meeting on this right now?
The chemicals to blame for this crisis are found in everything from plastic containers and food wrapping, to waterproof clothes and fragrances in cleaning products, to soaps and shampoos, to electronics and carpeting. Some of them, called PFAS, are known as “forever chemicals”, because they don’t breakdown in the environment or the human body. They just accumulate and accumulate – doing more and more damage, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Now, it seems, humanity is reaching a breaking point.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich
Erin Brokovich was the subject of a famous Julia Roberts Hollywood movie which dramatised Erin’s successful pursuit of PG&E over a groundwater contamination scandal.
Obviously we must take this new threat seriously. The United Nations needs to establish a monitoring mission to assess… Nah, I can’t say it 🙂
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Just a little off topic You Tube Ray Jessel “What She’s Got” and a little off color (-:
Nice little tune! Despite the obvious, he could be arrested in Canada for denying he is a she.
Dang…now I’ll have to change the punchline on my favorite joke from
10″ Pianist to 6″ Pianist
No more babies after 2045? Great, no need to worry about the population bomb or CAGW any more. We can all live our lives out in comfort knowing that we can exploit the earth’s resources and it doesn’t matter.
Naw… they’ll just start cloning around
Obesity and low protein diets have a huge effect too. That’ll be meat protein of course.
Many years ago when the bbc was a news outlet, they did a documentary on sperm counts in the London area.
It suggested that the reason was the high use of the anti contraceptive pill which found its way into the London ground water reservoirs and was thus consumed by the effete London men.
But most of us ‘Uupp North’ knew long ago that Cockneys were a bunch of shemen
There is not much north of Watford anyway.
Q Granny, did you have a profession back in the 2020s
A Yes, I did
Q What was it Granny
A I was an existential crisis monger
LoL!
Me thinks they play too much with their Shrinky Dinks
So what’s the problem? The leftist wackos have been trying to emasculate men , especially white males, for decades.!
Oh! Now that I’ve thought about it more I see why the left is worried. According to their theory, men that are less endowed compensate by purchasing bigger guns.
Watch commercials. White men are often portrayed as effeminated idiots/dorks.
Just about always. TV commercials are pure cultural brainwashing.
It isn’t just the commercials. The sitcoms are just as bad. Think back to to male characters on “Friends.” It has been going on for a long time.
Yes, it has been going on a long time. In commercials, and tv shows and movies and anything the Left controls. It’s all about brainwashing, to the Left. That’s their lifeblood.
When Jake from from State Farm was white, he was a rolly polly balding confused swing shift worker that wore clothes that didn’t quite fit right.
Now that he is black, he wears well fitted clothes; he is muscular, attractive, smart, funny, and works the day shift while cavorting with famous people.
State Farm doesn’t get my business (not because of Jake … he is still funny, but because of their other choices in their advertising representatives/spokespeople … Chris Paul is a POS)
I noticed that too. Also, in the latest “Avengers” movie, “white” Captain America (Chris Evans) was cast aside (he was the very best Avengers character) and gave his shield to “black” Falcon.
Well there goes the penile implant. 😉
Are you saying that wood is more natural and appropriate?
Yes, if a hardwood, but not a softwood.
I could see some going for the palm, but I wondered if weeping willow is hard or soft.
wormwood is the smallest and softest.
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder?
I thought it was just my old age. But we don’t even die of old age anymore.
Old age might soon be a thing of the past – as soon as the CRISPR people figure out how to safely insert genes into adults I’m joining the queue for this upgrade.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2491496/
Better keep those things out of Australia.
Where’s the absolutely vital research into the worst disaster facing humanity we’ve ever seen? We need to be able to safely insert common sense into adults. sarc
People still die of “Oldtimers Disease”
I remember an old “Mad Magazine” take on “Love Story”, where the heroine died of “Old Movie Disease” – where the character gets more beautiful as she gets closer to the end…
“could reach zero…”
How to confess you don’t understand how to analysis data and trends in three simple words.
Or in three letters, LNT.
Do these products include face masks?
This may be a real thing – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen
You are aware that the study showing males turning into females because of excess oestregen in the environment comes from precisely one source – it has only ever been found in one frog species, nowhere else? It’s still going around and around though.
A few years (2002) back blamed the shrinking sperm count on contraceptive pills finding their way into drinking water/ Today, everything is blamed on climate change or plastics.
On this occasion the author of the book (yes, she’s selling a book), gathered research from various sources (not original research), to make a few dollars on her pet subject.
Just another scare du jour.
I have stopped watching the evening news …. every night is the same thing …. Another scary covid story, scarier than the last scary covid story!!
I can see kids at summer camp sitting around telling scary stories about monsters without masks prowling the forest looking to infect innocent children.
I don’t have to imagine it, I see adults doing exactly that (sans camp fire)
For a year. my radio alarm woke me with the news – which always started with the daily Covid death and infection rate! Talk about “keepin’ up the skeer!”. The South African news has finally returned to its regular routine of which politician has been accused of corruption, and how many millions he (seldom she) had stolen!
I personally think it’s soy in prepared food. It’s absolutely everywhere.
Shrink it?
Are condoms to blame?
Asking for a friend/science.
When you put one on, you only need to worry if you can’t see the barcode at the lower end of the condom.
There are things that do what they say – doctors dole them out in truckloads 24/7/365 and they make a select few people rich.
They pretty well destroy everybody else, physically and mentally
They’re called Statins.
They trash your Cholesterol production, by design. ##
All our hormones are made from Cholesterol.
2 are of especial interest right now, Testosterone as in this story but also Vitamin D, Strictly Vit D is a hormone and not really a ‘vitamin’
Also everyone is told to ‘Save The World’ by eating plants, or plant protein in the shape of soya.
Soya is hideous stuff and that has been known for millennia, hence why it was always fermented (allowed to rot) for years before eating it. Even then in tiny amounts as a condiment.
But no, we are now cajoled into eating huge amounts of stuff that could turn a male rock into an actual real-life Venus
They also tell you not to eat saturated fat, the original and best precursor for Cholesterol
Also to wear sunscreen – stops you making Vitamin D and even worse, perfectly homicidal in action if not intent, tell you to stay/hide indoors.
## Also promotes the onset of Diabetes. i.e. Floods your bloodstream with Insulin, (a really horrible & damaging chemical substance in its own right but also) sugar, a really potent chemical depressant.
Sorry dear, I’m ‘not in the mood’ or ‘just wanna sleep’
Q. And why do folks use and need in fact now need, addictive depressants such as sugar, booze, cannabis, trash TV, junk science, doom & gloom media and heavy-handed mendacious thugs calling themselves ‘police’
Why?
Because contrary to what ‘doctors’ say, we are not intrinsically disposed to addictive behaviours. Something always causes them – addiction is not a sign of ‘weakness’
A. We need/use those things to try to alleviate the stress that clowns like we see here and Governments, in their incessant scramble for money money money, impose on everyone.
Then and even more grotesque inside Covid, totally outlaw the simplest thing we do that is not a chemically based remedy for stress. i.e. Social contact
And tell us that there is a ‘Recommended Amount’ for alcohol, also that during Covid is NOT a good time to try to quit.
Despite the well known fact that alcohol flushes Zinc out of us and thus disables our immune systems. Mr Trump being the exemplar model of that – see how well he coped with Covid compared to the Fat, Diabetic & Bloated Boozer Boris
Climate Science is a parallel trainwreck to contemporary Medical Science.
That is where the babies went.
Everywhere you look these days, you see lunatics running asylums.
As often said around here, they are patently homicidal in intent.
Yes, Chuckles & Attenborough, we’re all looking at you.
There are no Real Asylums anymore. They’ve all been made illegal and destroyed by The Lunatics – just as Warmists take great delight in watching (old) coal fired power stations being blown up & destroyed
(Do I need to point out what a dirty little single-track mind this person has, fixating on & exaggerating on the (imagined) symptom/thing- not the actual cause. Even before exaggeration is simply a variation on mendacity. ‘Somebody’ is ‘out on The Pull’
Except that Gold, the shiny yellow metal, is in her viewfinder and is using cheap & childish sexual (self) titivation as bait for her money trap)
That’ll put the cat among the pigeons! Erin clearly knows where it hurts; in the other half of the population, that is.
I am sure that Alexandria Obviously Crazy (AOC) woman will be very encouraged by this latest research finding. In fact, I expect her to now start championing fossil fuel based plastics and chemicals, to ensure the world without babies she so desperately looks forward to, can be realised.
On a more personal note. Does age have the same shrinking effect as chemicals? Just asking ….
She’s keeping a low profile lately because she doesn’t want to be asked why she hasn’t visited the boarder to see if the incarcerated kids are drinking toilet water.
Border.
She already has enough photos looking thru the chain-link fence into an empty parking lot.
AOC=Angry Ossified C**t
As ever the Groaniad’s readers’ comments are unhinged
They don’t like humans at all
Plastics leach oestrogenic compounds. These of course affect male fertility. Nothing new about this.
This story coming from the Grauniad should be no surprise. After all they’ve already suffered a huge shrinkage of their readership and it might be said judging from their climate hysteria that the brains of the Grauniad’s journalists have also already been affected by shrinkage.
Te mere fact that the Graun is cheerleading for CAGW just confirms it’s garbage. Every cause the paper champions collapses eventually.
My local newsagent tells me so few people now buy the rag he can hardly even give it away.
That’s because they are plastic commies.
You couldn’t make it up (unless you are the Grauniad).
They found what to blame for what’s happening to them.
How do inert “forever chemicals” react in the body to affect fertility? Geoff S
I must admit that I have attempted to keep my sperm count low at every exciting opportunity since even before 1973 though I’ve been slowing down the past few years.
You still may be doing better than the youngin’s.
Yeah, I check the baggage along with the excitement!
Id have thought theyd be celebrating
after all they WANT the pop levels to drop massively
reducing consumption resource use and us being a plague on the plant and all…
oh
THEIR fertility rates for the faithful just also happen to be included and thats a worry?
Okay, so we’ll end up with Ripley’s nightmare about giant drooling ants and their queen )nasty critter if there ever was one) and civilization won’t be doomed any more.
The people who come up with this stuff really need some extensive therapy.
And I always thought being in the pool caused shrinkage.
Even worse is the castration crew knocking at your door.
Must be global cooling if there is shrinkage.