Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
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Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
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Re: Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
#2What? This is being described as a "crisis"? It's the best news I've heard all year. We should celebrate!
The world's population is completely out of control, all estimates of future environmental catastrophe turn out to be overly optimistic, we're drifting into a state of perpetual war because of population pressures, and someone laments a decline in sperm count without the slightest grasp of how funny that is?
Read and weep, children:
Re: Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
#3Children of Men here we come!
Re: Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
#4What? This is being described as a "crisis"? It's the best news I've heard all year. We should celebrate! The world's population is completely out of control, all estimates of future environmental catastrophe turn out to be overly optimistic, we're drifting into a state of perpetual war because of population pressures, and someone laments a decline in sperm count without the slightest grasp of how funny that is? Read…
A bit less pessimistic view is presented by Hans Rosling at a relatively recent TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.h... Well worth watching.
Sperm count is unlikely to affect the population growth anyway, what we need is to get people out of poverty and proper family planning with access to proper birth control. Then we can "control" the population.
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#5Original article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-warn-of...
Re: Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
#6What? This is being described as a "crisis"? It's the best news I've heard all year. We should celebrate! The world's population is completely out of control, all estimates of future environmental catastrophe turn out to be overly optimistic, we're drifting into a state of perpetual war because of population pressures, and someone laments a decline in sperm count without the slightest grasp of how funny that is? Read…
A bit less pessimistic view is presented by Hans Rosling at a relatively recent TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.h... Well worth watching. Sperm count is unlikely to affect the population growth anyway, what we need is to get people out of poverty and proper family planning with access to proper birth control. Then we can "control" the population.
What we need is a 1 child policy like in China.
Re: Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
#7What? This is being described as a "crisis"? It's the best news I've heard all year. We should celebrate! The world's population is completely out of control, all estimates of future environmental catastrophe turn out to be overly optimistic, we're drifting into a state of perpetual war because of population pressures, and someone laments a decline in sperm count without the slightest grasp of how funny that is? Read…
Thanks for the link, I would have never known without Wikipedia...out of all places. /s
Sperm count falling by one third in 25 years is much scarier, suggests a horrible trend for us. As for overpopulation, people usually had /have a lot of kids because of high mortality rates.
By the way, who is going to work so that pension check gets to you ;) ?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit less pessimistic view is presented by Hans Rosling at a relatively recent TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.h... Well worth watching. Sperm count is unlikely to affect the population growth anyway, what we need is to get people out of poverty and proper family planning with access to proper birth control. Then we can "control" the population.
What we need is a 1 child policy like in China.
That does lead to other problems, like putting a strain on the welfare system of countries when there suddenly is a huge decrease in the number of people that support those who have retired.
Look at Japan where there are fewer and fewer supporting more and more. It is kinda working for now but what will happen in 20 years? Who knows.
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#9Children of Men here we come! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/
That was one of the most profound movies I ever watched, I also highly recommend it. It is moving, beautiful, and makes you rethink everything we take for granted.
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#10The study was preformed on sperm banks in France. This means the results probably generalize to all developed/industrialized nations. What would be nice would be some studies to look for this effect in other societies. It would certainly help dial in on root causes.