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.
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.