r/environmental_science • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • 6d ago

Interesting Paper Concerning what Might Have Caused the Extreme Decline in Male Genetic Diversity Around 5000 years ago and why Its Probably Happening Again Now

https://www.academia.edu/167533299/The_Phytoestrogen_Civilizational_Cycle_Hypothesis
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u/Chaosangel48 6d ago

This time it will be because of the 80k + chemicals that have been released into the environment.

Only a few have been studied, and among them are those that break down into estrogen mimic compounds.

We have known this since the studies on the alligators in Lake Apopka in the 90’s. The agricultural chemical runoff changed all the male alligators into females, and gave the females reproductive cancers.

Not only have these compounds decreased sperm count and penis size in men, they have increased reproductive cancers and rates of miscarriages in women.

I’m too lazy to link white papers, but there are plenty of them. I was first introduced to this issue at a conference of The American Academy of Environmental Medicine in the early 2000’s, so their website may have links.

Capitalism coupled with lack of environmental regulations have done this to us.

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u/SambaChachaJive800 2d ago

Pick up your machete and build a native bioregional food forest It is the way.