CitizenVectron Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Humans May Not Be Able to Reproduce Naturally Much Longer, Scientist Warns | by Emily Mullin | Feb, 2021 | Future Human FUTUREHUMAN.MEDIUM.COM Everyday chemicals are threatening the future of human fertility Quote Many men today have just half the number of sperm their grandfathers had. The shocking discovery was published in 2017 by Shanna Swan, PhD, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Quote After analyzing 185 studies involving nearly 45,000 healthy men, Swan and her team found that over the past four decades, sperm counts among men in Western countries had dropped by more than 50%. Quote Why the huge decline? Swan says many factors are at play — alcohol use, smoking, body weight, and a lack of exercise are a few. But she has zeroed in on another, more insidious cause: exposure to common chemicals that interfere with the body’s production of hormones. Quote Swan has been studying these so-called endocrine disruptors for the past 30 years. And it turns out men’s sperm isn’t the only thing they affect: They may be changing human sexual development and reproduction in broader ways, too. In girls, exposure to such chemicals has been linked to earlier onset of puberty. Women, meanwhile, are experiencing a decline in egg quality and more miscarriages. Overall, reduced population is a good thing! Fortunately we were headed this way anyway due to developing nations slowly lowering their birth rates as they become developed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spawn_of_Apathy Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Good news for high school teens across the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 So I guess we are gonna have to move Children of Men from Science Fiction to Fiction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I'm fine with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Children of Men yet again confirmed as best film of the 2000s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 32 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Overall, reduced population is a good thing! Dabbling in eugenics I see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Dabbling in eugenics I see Just antinatalism! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Just now, CitizenVectron said: Just antinatalism! "Well they shouldn't be having children anyway..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 32 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said: Children of Men yet again confirmed as best film of the 2000s It’s my all time favorite film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Could be chemicals/lack of exercise. Sure. Sure. Could also be a natural equilibrium mechanism rising up to regulate and maintain the longterm survival of the species. Or still just the chemicals thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Sounds like a challenge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 1. Reduced population is not a good thing. Malthusian attitudes should be done away with. 2. This sounds needlessly alarming and probably counterfactual. 3. It's focus is on western men, which again not only feeds into this being alarmist/counterfactual, but also very racist in that "Fourteen Words" kind of way. 4. For all the criticism I have, I will echo that Children of Men is not only prescient in its criticism, but prophetic in its vision. I can't bear to rewatch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 minute ago, CayceG said: 1. Reduced population is not a good thing. Malthusian attitudes should be done away with. I'm curious of your opinions on this. Do you support continued expansion of the population? Or around what we have now? I'm curious of your reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: I'm curious of your opinions on this. Do you support continued expansion of the population? Or around what we have now? I'm curious of your reasons. I support no artificial increase or decrease of populations. The problems we face are of resource distribution, not overpopulation or underpopulation. There's no justification for slowing or speeding up natural population change that doesn't line up with either Malthusian attitudes about population, or misreads of material conditions at some point or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Ecofash adjacent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Speak for yourselves 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Well, it was a good run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 It's not a surprise - I remember a story a few years ago saying sperm counts in the West had dropped 60%!! So, this is a natural extension of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air_Delivery Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: It's not a surprise - I remember a story a few years ago saying sperm counts in the West had dropped 60%!! So, this is a natural extension of that. Too much internet porn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 To be fair this says "naturally". Time to science this shit and do test tube babies c'mon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Riley larping Thanos in here, I see. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 1 hour ago, CayceG said: I support no artificial increase or decrease of populations. The problems we face are of resource distribution, not overpopulation or underpopulation. There's no justification for slowing or speeding up natural population change that doesn't line up with either Malthusian attitudes about population, or misreads of material conditions at some point or another. Agreed. But ya know have to keep kids/families hungry for dat C.R.E.A.M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 So we won't need condoms anymore, you say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I do have some mild concerns when people like this make such claims when it seems to be in their best interest monetarily to do so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 7 hours ago, Xbob42 said: I do have some mild concerns when people like this make such claims when it seems to be in their best interest monetarily to do so... She looks pretty fertile. Come on boys test her theory wrong! (Consensually of course) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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