The human race is doomed but you don’t know why even if you think you do.
It isn’t climate change, nor nuclear war, nor asteroid collision.
It isn’t because women are waiting longer to have children.
A common theory is that more affluent countries tend to have fewer children.
That isn’t the reason either.
It is because men are becoming sterile.
The U.S. birth rate has been dropping for decades, it is down 4% just in the past few years.
With the pandemic lockdown many experts and non-experts thought there would be a baby boom since sex is still the favorite indoor sport.
It didn’t happen.
But scientists study fertility study sperm counts.
Average sperm counts in U.S. is approximately half what it was 40 years ago. In fact, it is only a few percent above what would ordinarily be called sterile.
The good news is that we not only know the reason, fixing it would be good for the planet, not just the human race.
It seems that if a pregnant woman is exposed to certain chemicals then by adulthood any boy child will have more feminine characteristics and a lower sperm count along with lower testosterone levels.
The particular chemicals are precisely the ones which are used to make plastics soft, such as drink containers which have become so common. In fact the introduction of these petrochemicals precisely coincide with the drop in sperm counts.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995172945/u-s-birthrate-drops-to-lowest-level-in-four-decades
This needs to receive major attention. Thanks for posting it.
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