Falling sperm counts and changes to sexual development are “threatening human survival” and leading to a fertility crisis, a leading epidemiologist has warned.
Writing in a new book, Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, warns that the impending fertility crisis poses a global threat comparable to that of the climate crisis.
“The current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival,” she writes in Count Down.
It comes after a study she co-authored in 2017 found that sperm counts in the west had plummeted by 59% between 1973 and 2011, making headlines globally.
Now, Swan says, following current projections, the median sperm count is set to reach zero in 2045. “That’s a little concerning, to say the least,” she told Axios.
In the book, Swan and co-author Stacey Colino explore how modern life is threatening sperm counts, changing male and female reproductive development and endangering human life.
It points to lifestyle and chemical exposures that are changing and threatening human sexual development and fertility. Such is the gravity of the threats they pose, she argues, that humans could become an endangered species.
“Of five possible criteria for what makes a species endangered,” Swan writes, “only one needs to be met; the current state of affairs for humans meets at least three.”
Swan offers advice on how to protect themselves from damaging chemicals and urges people to “do what we can to safeguard our fertility, the fate of mankind, and the planet”.
Between 1964 and 2018 the global fertility rate fell from 5.06 births per woman to 2.4. Now approximately half the world’s countries have fertility rates below 2.1, the population replacement level.
This is a GOOD thing; GREAT, actually. ‘WHO’ has low sperm counts?? Those who are UNHEALTHY do (mentally AND physically). Those who live a TOXIC lifestyle do. Do we REALLY want ‘those types’ to be reproducing?? NO! Lets BE/GET REAL, shall we?! It is the HEALTHY ones who are also CONSCIOUS (aka AWAKE); we know that the water is POISON, the vaxx are POISON, 98% of the ‘food’ in any given grocery store is POISON, the ‘education system’ is POISON, ect….we know the way the REAL world works. And THESE are the people who will still be fertile and the… Read more »
How right you are. An aside, since the 60’s birth control has been widely available which would affect the 5.06 female birth rate to 2.4.
you are a white anglo saxon Karen!
So if only the most healthy non polluted humans are left in existence, that would rule out the ‘civilized’ populations. The most healthy unpolluted humans are those living in small tribes on islands or in deep jungles who have almost no contact with outsiders. And these tribes are truly AWAKE being so connected to their land. Therefore, the end of white people. Aww, too bad.
That’s a pathetic ‘cope’. And I’m not surprised. Let’s be clear. This sterilization is a deliberate attack; not a happenstance. It’s been progressing for decades; and you don’t know for sure how the attack has been delivered. What makes you so sure you’ve been spared? The explanations offered for this apocalypse over the years have been nothing but cover-stories. The most recent explanation: (Plastics) was trotted out at the same time plastic refuse was being targeted for entirely other reasons. Before that? Something else. How do I know it’s deliberate? Because the authorities refuse to allow independent investigation into the… Read more »
This is what the fascist right do, they hijack well-intentioned social movements and warp them into some nefarious social decaying agenda. Wanting a cleaner environment turned into 5G cancerous electro-smog “smart” grid cities, caring about the Common Good turned into Toxic Communitarianism – a Quarantyranny to get a vaxport/social credit system “for the greater good”, and transgenderism is pushed by the eugenicists who use it as a way to lower the population. Male fertility has plummeted over the decades from possible chemicals in water, beer, etc. Stop blaming “the left”. It always comes back to the billionaire fascist Big Capitalists… Read more »