Action needed on plastic additives linked to sperm decline, experts warn

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/19/urgent-action-needed-plastic-additives-sperm-count-decline-experts-warn

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confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 358d

Whenever I think about the movie Children of Men, all I can think is that the answer to the Human Project's question was microplastics.

Instead of asking why women couldn't have children anymore, they should have been checking men for forever confetti in their balls.

gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com · 8 pts · 358d

I'm down for reducing plastic, but framing it around sperm and natalism just weirds me out. I get that we generally would like to continue as a species, but I sort of think the damage we've done to the earth requires cleaning up in and of itself, not so we can have more babies.

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 358d (3 replies)

No, don't. The planet needs to heal, we can do with fewer people until we finally figure our shit out

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 358d (1 reply)

Sigh

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 358d

Starting with this guys testicle.

Egonallanon@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 358d

Stop repeating eco fascist rhetoric.

furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 358d (1 reply)

If it saves me the cost of vasectomy, gimme more plastic

protist@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 358d

But there's also the cancer

Keyboard@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 358d

I don’t believe it