More and more boys born with deformed genitals
The number of baby boys that are born with deformed genitals has doubled over the past 2 decades. Worldwide, about one in 250 baby boys are born with hypospadias. A condition where the urethra exits the penis at the base rather than the tip.
The number of boys going down
For the past 30 years, the birth of baby boys has declined in more than 20 industrialized countries. The chemical revolution is a likely explanation since chemicals mimicking the female hormone oestrogen can disrupt the development of baby boys. These chemicals are widely used in for example plastic products and their production has increased massively in the past decades. For example phthalates.
The global production of 250 billion tons synthetic chemicals is estimated at $7.8 trillion a year.
Disappearing males
In the heavily polluted Lake Apopka (Florida, USA) only female turtles can be found - males are no longer born. 50 percent of the male alligators in the lake are born with deformed genitals. Others even develop female ovaries.
More disappearing males
In 28 rivers in England where trouts were released and examined some weeks later, male trouts had developed female ovaries. Among North American herring gulls the sex ratio is so unbalanced that females mate with each other in frustration.
Decreasing male sex ratios
In First Nation community (Chippewa) in Canada, the sex-ratio dropped from around 50/50, to roughly one-third boys and two-thirds girls over a period of less than 10 years. The region is heavily industrialized…
No signs of chemical production going down. Quite the contrary.
While observing these very alarming developments, the world continues to produce 250 billions tons of man-made chemicals a year, including a large number of chemicals that are KNOWN to be hormone disrupting and cause abnormal development of sexual organs.
The OECD projects that global production of man-made chemicals will reach $18 trillion by 2050. This will represent a massive six-fold increase compared to 2000.
1000 different chemicals are known or suspected to be capable of interfering with the human hormone system. So-called endocrine-disruptors. The most hormone disruption chemicals include bisphenol A, phthalates, pesticides, and PVC plastics (mainly because of the dioxin PVC emits during production, use and disposal).
Check out the alarming documentary "The Disappearing Male". Promo below.
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