A new book called Countdown, by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive scientist in New York, finds that sperm counts have
dropped almost 60% since 1973. Swan's research suggests sperm counts
could reach zero by 2045. That would mean no babies. No reproduction.
No more humans. 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. Swan's book is staggering in its findings. "In
some parts of the world, the average twenty something year old 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.
As if this wasn't scary enough, Swan's research finds that these chemicals
are also shrinking penis size and volume of the testes. This research
should be very alarming to us.
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