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Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says

edition.cnn.com Common food pesticides reducing sperm count worldwide, study says | CNN

Nearly 50 years of research links two common insecticides used in food, yards and households to dramatically lower sperm count in men worldwide.

Pesticides used in our homes, gardens and lawns and sprayed on foods we eat are contributing to a dramatic decline in sperm count among men worldwide, according to a new analysis of studies over the last 50 years.

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Good. We need less people anyway.

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- I had the same thought: the earth is already overpopulated. It's not sustainable to have 8 billion people on this planet.
  
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  Yeah we need to go back to 3 billion, and stop listening to people that cry about aging population and there being less people... They are just idiots or people that want super cheap labor.
  
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Yay!

Non-existent people are so much happier. \•__•\

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Is reduced sperm count a bad thing at this point in time? Didn’t we just pass the 8 billion mark in Earth’s population recently? We could probably stand to reduce the population gain for a bit.

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- Theoretically, but if the population falls from current numbers, the life quality will fall too because smaller number of working age people will have to support a higher population of retired people. That puts an enormous burden on young generations and strains the economy.
  
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  working age people will have to support a higher population of retired people
  
  Will we though? Will we have to?
  
  Or might we just set their gophers on an ice floe from the arctic ice sheets they helped to melt and nudge them off into the ocean?
  
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- It conflicts with growth at all cost economic systems which obviously are sustainable forever.
  
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So Children of Men was a prophecy?

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plants will have their revenge in the long run!

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