Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Efforts to find a replacement for the dying climate crisis have reached new depths.
Falling sperm counts, shrinking penises: Toxic chemicals threaten humanity
Erin Brockovich
Thu 18 Mar 2021 21:23 AEDT
The chemicals responsible for our reproductive crisis are found everywhere and in everything
The end of mankind? It could come sooner than we think, thanks to hormone-disrupting chemicals that are decimating fertility around the world at an alarming rate. A new book called Countdown by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine on Mount Sinai in New York, notes that sperm counts have dropped nearly 60% since 1973 and the number could reach zero by 2045. Zero. Let that take effect. That would mean there are no babies. No reproduction. No more people. Forgive me for asking: Why is the UN not calling an emergency meeting right now?
The chemicals responsible for this crisis can be found in everything from plastic containers and food packaging to waterproof clothing and fragrances in cleaning products to soaps and shampoos, electronics and carpeting. Some of them, called PFAS, are known as “chemicals forever” because they do not break down in the environment or in the human body. They just accumulate and cause more and more damage, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Now humanity seems to be 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 film that dramatized Erin’s successful PG&E pursuit over a groundwater pollution scandal.
Of course, we have to take this new threat seriously. The United Nations needs to set up a monitoring mission to assess … No, I can’t say 🙂
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