© Mark Lennihan/APNothing short of a full-scale emergency for humanity.
The 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.Swan's book is staggering in its findings.
"In some parts of the world, the average twenty-something woman today is less fertile than her grandmother was at 35," Swan writes. In addition to that, Swan finds that, on average,
a man today will have half of the sperm his grandfather had. "The current state of reproductive affairs can't continue much longer without threatening human survival," writes Swan, adding:
"It's a global existential crisis." That's not hyperbole. That's just science.
Comment: Indeed, Nance's media track record is littered with left-wing nuttery: