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 🙂
Please keep comments and quips family friendly.
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.
I was in the pool!
That’s what “Seinfields” character, George, was screaming after he was accidentally spotted naked after going for a swim. Elaine saw him and started laughing and poor George was making excuses.
That was pretty funny.
… wasn’t Elaine. But later in the show Jerry did explain to her about shrinkage. She didn’t know about it.
Elaine:
It shrinks?
Jerry:
Like a frightened turtle!
Elaine:
Why does it shrink?
George Costanza:
It just does.
Elaine:
I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.
Yes, you’re right. I forgot that part.
If I look arond, “thanks” Cov-19, I see a lot of (more than earlier) baby carriages.
Well, if you work at it hard enough, 73 percent is probably sufficient.
Can’t we just move on to Trivid-20 or Quadvid-21
“Following the trajectory we are on, Swan’s research suggests sperm counts could reach zero by 2045.”
This is just as stupid as ‘research’ saying women would soon be faster runners than men (yes, I read this in a major newspaper in the ’90s) because their 100M world records improved at a faster pace in the 20th century than men’s.
I wonder who the little prick was that did the research.
Hey it’s the same stupidity in climate science with sea level rise, having a trend is meaningless because there are physical limits. However for a good scare story just ignore reality and go full retard.
Not everyone hates plastics: 😉
UK vinyl spending on track to overtake CDs for first time since 1987
The US is trending back towards vinyl also.
I don’t understand why this is a problem./sarc Isn’t one of the goals of lords and masters of the universe to reduce the human population to a ‘sustainable’ level?
Childhood’s End – Great book!
Clarke’s masterpiece, IMO.
Concerning fears about the spread of small radioactive particles from a nuclear meltdown incident, and the potential health effects on the human population — the analogy as been drawn by health physicists that there is enough sperm in an average man’s semen to impregnate every woman of child bearing age in the United States. However, there is no credible delivery scenario.
Its been fun experimenting with direct research into this though.:)
Reminds me of the old joke: 2 bulls are standing at the top end of the field overseeing the herd. The younger bull turns to the older one and says “Let’s run down there and f@*# a cow.” The older one replies “No, let’s walk down there and f@*# them all!”
Personally, I have always asserted there is great difficulty, ahem, erecting a tribute to the so-called “climate crisis”.
Just as they claimed that herbicides and pesticides would become estrogenic compounds in farm soils, which would then feminize our males, it never happened. It is ingenuous to ignore the fact that some of these chemicals do become estrogenic forms, but bacterial processes continue to further break down these chemicals, such that the estrogenic forms do not persist or accumulate.
The same is true of plastics. To make a general statement about such a wide range of chemicals is to be simple-minded. As with many chemicals in our environment, the toxicity is in the dose. If the chemicals in question do not accumulate and also turnover, no problem. It has been found that the only way to have consistent numbers of microplastics in birds is to continue feeding them with these particles. Such a consistent diet is not natural and does not mimc the real world.
Also, the fact we are even talking about microplastics means that plastics are breaking down naturally. Bacteria love a free lunch and one will evolve to eat any given plastic.
There is a US movie about this type of thing. A Boy and His Dog It starred a young Don Johnson before Miami Vice fame.
A fun little post apocalyptical flick. I mean we are in an ongoing apocalypse aren’t we? So 2045 would hopefully be post?
In a couple of weeks, the jammed ship in the Suez will have produced an apocalypse
Neo ==> Now freed at last
From the article: “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?”
I know I’m going to get in trouble for this.
It looks like some of the older, single guys, may have a new job of repopulating humanity.
That will put ”planned parenthood” out of business.
Funny really progressive liberals worrying about fertility, when they murder most [ millions ] of their unborn in the womb any way.
I saw Virginia’s Democrat governor proudly signing a law yesterday eliminating the death penalty in criminal cases.
Now the governor needs to sign a law eliminating the death penalty for the unborn in Virginia.
If you read the article, the researcher blames ‘chemicals’ in our environment, birth control, obesity, earlier puberty in girls and unhealthy lifestyle choices. This is the usual dreck we can alway expect from pseudo journalism
too late. now I know who to blame though.
The best part of this article is the assumption that the “climate crisis” is dying. I hope that is true! The intellectual argument for catastrophic global warming has been bankrupt for years. But religions persist, even destructive ones.
Predictive programming? These Bolshies are getting good! They are learning from our ridiculing their obvious hogwash vis a vis global warming and suchlike, so now they start “predicting” their desired outcomes, so that, in 25 yaers’ time, they can point at “extant consensus science” to prove they did no nuffin’ wrong, look, “experts have known this for decades already”.
Level 4 financial desperation
The only thing that shrinks my pe**s is getting out of the shower into a cold room. Luckily it’s reversable.
The article actually says it reduces fertility. That might be a good thing, especially in poor over-populated areas.
I have a feeling that plastics are not the only thing involved (if they are actually involved at all). Once again, I am willing to bet the true answer is much more complex then the scientists studying the phenomenon think.
Nature is so wonderfully complex – but scientists insist every square piece of it be tucked into a round cubbyhole.
Oh, I’d noticed it was shrinking, I thought it was due to lack of use. I feel reassured now I know what the real cause is.
It all seems very strange that population will decline and reach “net zero”(this is the new catch phrase) by 2045, when all indications show we are skyrocketing towards 8 billion people well before that.
Everyone knows, but won’t address the issue, that human population growth is out of control.
Each and every day net population growth is over 350,000 world wide.
A little slowly of this rate would be healthy.
“… hormone-disrupting chemicals…
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.”
Call me crazy, but if sperm counts are indeed declining, maybe – just maybe – it has something to do with the fact that soy is present in virtually *every* prepared food on the market.
Trust me on this one – I’ve read more labels than I can count in the last 3 years. And soy mimics estrogen.
when the wife asks, now I have an excuse that I can point to … thanks.
I’m in the process of reading/rereading several books the main thrust of which is the effect they have on human brains at every stage throughout our lives. Most people know of pre and post menopausal problems experienced by women and caused by hormones but few people seem to be aware of the critical effects of floods of hormones on both male and female at various times throughout their lives. Exposure to testereone in the first few weeks following conception mean that male brains are visibly different from female brains and later exposure in puberty make them operate in a different fashion. Mistiming of hormonal exposure can result in male brains in female bodies and vice versa. Mistiming of another kind can result in male brains with female programming and vice versa. Again hormones seem to be responsible for sexual preferences i.e heterosexuality vs homoosexuality.
The various man made hormones and hormone-like chemical loose in the wild are having measurable effects and not only just on humans. This is not a subject fit only for laughing at. In the long term the unintentional mucking up with the chemicals which control so much of life may turn out to be greater existential threat than the imaginary threats of global warming.
I don’t think we should be laughing at it.
Yet normal children are still being born. Are we to give up those products when some are saying there are too many people.
Isn’t this a GOOD thing? No more humans left to pollute the planet! If we’re so terrible for the planet, this is something to celebrate.