Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1The 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 twentysomething 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.
As if this wasn’t terrifying enough, Swan’s research finds that these chemicals aren’t just dramatically reducing semen quality, they are also shrinking penis size and volume of the testes. This is nothing short of a full-scale emergency for humanity.
Swan’s book echoes previous research, which has found that PFAS harms sperm production, disrupts the male hormone and is correlated to a “reduction of semen quality, testicular volume and penile length”. These chemicals are literally confusing our bodies, making them send mix messages and go haywire.
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Agree about the concern for other species.
Rejoicing about the reduction of humans.
My creative speculation about that is that perhaps humans are actually extraterrestrials who came here to destroy the planet and the way we fooled all other life forms in the biosphere is that we came here as energy without physical form and borrowed DNA from what was already here to create a physical form. Probably why we're so poorly engineered for survival. And look, we're almost at mission accomplished!
Just sayin' and all that. 
and animals were quite happy during the world lockdown during the earlier days of the pandemic when we humans were gone from the picture. Water and air was much cleaner. 
By the way we use gawn for gone (in cricket - when a wicket falls)
funny malaise,
instead of "thief" you hear "teif" you know what I mean!! The Jamaican slang!! 
