First it was the fish and birds. Now it's us dropping off the planet!

G-d's ways are subtle. - Spy on America.

Bill Gates and a lot of other folks with Big Money are big on population control these days, eager to push contraception on folks in Third World countries [though, as we’ve noted before, the surest way to control population is to reduce income inequality, something that doesn’t seem to rank all that high on their agendas].
But it looks like they can relax now. Something in our environment seems to be taking the reins out of their hands.

Just consider the following from The Hals Report:

Have you noticed there aren’t as many males in the world anymore? Well, there isn’t. A growing body of evidence has begun to show something is wrong with the sexual health of human males.

To begin with, sperm counts have dropped by 50% in the last 50 years worldwide. On the other hand, sperm abnormalities and rates of male infertility have increased radically. Rates of testicular cancer have also doubled in the last 20 years. The question is, why?

Scientist now believe certain man made chemicals are to blame. These chemicals have been known to interfere with the male hormonal system where they wreak havoc on the building blocks of male sexual development. The problem is, they are everywhere.

60 years ago synthetic chemicals were a futuristic novelty. Since that time, the chemical industry has developed more than 90,000 man made compounds and the vast majority have never been tested for effects on human beings.

These chemicals are found in virtually every consumer product. Chemicals like Bisphenol-A make plastics hard. Other chemicals called Phthalates make plastics soft. They make cosmetics smell good and our fabrics stain resistant. Yet the question remains, is it really worth it?

For some time now scientist have expressed concerns claiming common chemicals cause profound and permanent damage in children. Now, scientist are just beginning to understand that some synthetic chemicals are far more damaging to boys. Yes, that’s right, boys. Young adult men are also at risk. Sperm counts in college aged men have fallen dramatically in recent decades. A typical young man produces less than half the sperm his father did and up to 85% of it is abnormal.

Read the rest here.

We’ve noted previously that massive increases in average weight are also being reported, and not just for people. Pets and even lab rats are growing fatter, and here, too, environmental contaminants are suspected.
Something is going wrong, and it’s probably our fault. We’ve turned the biosphere into one massive uncontrolled experiment, contaminating every thing we touch with chemicals and tweaked genes never before seen on the planet.

The world’s amphibians are dying, bees are vanishing, dead fish litter our beaches, and birds are falling from the sky.

Maybe, just maybe, an economic collapse that forced us to live simpler lives wouldn’t be such a bad thing, either for us or for the myriad marvelous creatures with whom we share this planet.
Just a thought, folks.


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