by Michael
Is humanity running out of time? Based on the expansion of the worldwide population in the course of the last century or so, you wouldn’t come to such a conclusion. In 1900 there have been about 2 billion people living on this planet, and now there are about 8 billion. But some experts at the moment are suggesting that we’ve got reached a really significant turning point. Global population growth has slowed dramatically, and birth rates have actually fallen well below substitute level in lots of industrialized nations. Couples are having a harder time producing babies, and there are numerous which might be blaming our highly toxic environment for this.
A twitter thread about our looming fertility crisis has gotten an incredible amount of attention over the past few days.
There is a deluge of chemicals today poisoning us:
in case you’re a mean person using regular soaps, deodorants, shampoos, body washes, conditioners, hair products, makeup, you are ingesting over 200+ chemicals + heavy metals a day, all linked to infertility
— Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 (@AlpacaAurelius) January 14, 2023
There are some pretty daring claims being made in that thread, and I made a decision to fact check three of probably the most startling…
#1 “1 in 4 couples cannot conceive naturally”
According to the official CDC website, 19 percent of ladies aged 15 to 49 in america will not be capable of get pregnant…
In america, amongst heterosexual women aged 15 to 49 years with no prior births, about 1 in 5 (19%) are unable to get pregnant after one yr of trying (infertility). Also, about 1 in 4 (26%) women on this group have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term (impaired fecundity).
So that may suggest that it is definitely around 1 in 5 couples that will not be capable of conceive naturally.
Nonetheless, it needs to be noted that the infertility rate has been steadily rising, and the number on the official CDC website reflects data that could be a bit old.
If current trends proceed, it’s only a matter of time before “1 in 4 couples cannot conceive naturally” if we will not be there already.
#2 “Sperm counts are down 60%”
This claim appears to be right on the nose. As I noted last week, a study that was recently released found that sperm counts have fallen by about 60 percent since 1973…
The most recent evaluation added seven years of sample collection and 44 study results to the 244 included in the sooner 2017 evaluation. That study, in its evaluation of information trends between 1973 and 2011, found a mean decline in mean sperm concentration of 1.6% per yr, and an overall decline of 59.3%. The most recent study found a good steeper decline – to 2.64% post-2000 and an overall fall of 62.3% amongst unselected men. This, add the authors, represents a decline of –4.70 million/yr, and indicates that this world-wide decline is continuous into the twenty first century at an accelerated pace.
If sperm counts proceed to plunge this rapidly, it won’t be too long before a majority of human males are infertile.
If that happens, the worldwide population will begin to say no very rapidly.
#3 “in case you’re a mean person using regular soaps, deodorants, shampoos, body washes, conditioners, hair products, makeup, you’re ingesting over 200+ chemicals + heavy metals a day, all linked to infertility”
This claim was much harder to confirm.
On the official NIH website, we’re told that “pregnant women in america are exposed to 43 or more different potential chemical toxins”…
Environmental toxins are ubiquitous and sometimes implicated in infertility development, either through anatomical abnormalities or endocrinological dysfunction. Based on a National Health and Nutrition Survey from 2003 through 2004, pregnant women in america are exposed to 43 or more different potential chemical toxins.[3]Knowledge and experience in evaluating exposure to environmental toxins are critical for any reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist.
Environmental toxins affect individuals throughout the lifespan, including prenatally, and might have various effects, from increasing cancer risk to ovulatory dysfunction to altered semen quality.
In fact the NIH has not exactly been a beacon of truth lately.
Surely, we’re all endlessly exposed to extremely hazardous toxins in our food, in what we drink, within the air that we breathe and within the products that we placed on our bodies.
A variety of those toxins have been linked to infertility, and lots of consider that that is one among the first the explanation why birth rates have been falling all around the world yr after yr…
It’s happening to men and ladies and as well, I should add, non-human species. And what we see is that the decline within the number of kids that individuals have is one percent per yr worldwide over the past 50 years. That’s true of developed countries and underdeveloped countries. And the identical rate of decline, one percent per yr, is what we see for the declining sperm count, what we see for the decline in testosterone, we see for the rise in miscarriage rates, and we’ve examined in our book “Count Down,” how each of those endpoints is deteriorating, in case you will, at the identical rate, about one percent per yr, which is one other little bit of evidence, although not conclusive, that these are related to a standard cause.
What do you’re thinking that goes to occur to us if these trends proceed?
Already, the fertility rate in america is way below substitute level…
In response to the US Census Bureau, the fertility rate – which measures what number of children a mean woman will give birth to during her life – was 1.6 in 2020.
This falls far below the extent of two.1 needed to keep up current population levels.
As I detail in my recent book, this crisis is an existential threat to the long run of humanity, but most individuals simply don’t care.
Most of us are only going to proceed to bombard ourselves and our kids with highly dangerous toxins irrespective of what information comes our way.
Sometimes I feel that we’re just too silly to proceed as a species for for much longer.
— Darwin Awards 🤦🏻♂️ (@DarwinAwards_) January 10, 2023
As a substitute of attempting to determine the way to avoid extinction, we’ve got turn out to be an “idiocracy” through which our young individuals are always devising increasingly bizarre ways to get probably the most social media views possible…
Man attempts to paraglide with couch pic.twitter.com/iSkgN4gUXY
— Weird and Terrifying (@weirdterrifying) January 16, 2023
The clock is ticking for humanity, and we cannot save ourselves from the historic catastrophe that’s in front of us.
Hopefully we are going to realize how desperate our situation has turn out to be before time runs out completely.