sperm counts are just two consequences of chemicals produced by increased pollution, according to a professor of medicine and public health.
Dr Shanna Swan of the Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York writes that humanity faces an “existential crisis” as a result of phthalates, a chemical used in the creation of plastics that impacts the hormone-producing endocrine system.
In her new book Count Down: How our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, the expert on reproductive health argues that “the current state of reproductive affairs can’t continue much longer without threatening human survival. ”Her research originates from studying phthalate.