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Apr 17Liked by Aubrey Hirsch

On the bright side, it's not the end of the world (just humanity).

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Apr 17Liked by Aubrey Hirsch

I heard of a biologist, a woman, who decades ago warned that plastics, particularly in children's toys, were causing hormone problems. (Kids put plastic toys right into their mouths, you know.) I've forgotten her name, and so has the internet. The plastics industry stifled her, I recall.

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Incredible important information and so well illustrated!

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Wow! And…. You know that misogynists will just use this as another reason why women shouldn’t have abortions…all that precious sperm simply CANNOT go to waste!

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Apr 17Liked by Aubrey Hirsch

Makes me feel all small and unswimmingly aproductive!

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It's like the Handmaid's Tale in reverse. The future really is female. Virile sperm will become like a precious metal, creating its own slave trade. Adapt or die testosterone bags.

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Microplastics are terrifying.

Then again republicans want to ban IVF so if they win in November, Americans will just die out.

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Apr 17·edited Apr 17

This very much doesn't solve the EDC problem, but for a not awful upfront fee, minors can store their sperm in a bank for free until they turn 18 and then super cheap after. For instance if someone wants to ensure their child will have the option of children. My Niece banked her sperm before starting hormones in case she ever wants kids in the future so I got to learn a bit about it. But if counts are dropping at this rate, I feel like all teens should consider it....

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god, yeah. no shit.

every time I get hung up on work stress I think about upbeat things like what's actually in our drinking water and why my kids are chronically sick and

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Love the comic and battlecry but actually it’s the methods that have got better and scientifically it’s not proven.

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The US and most modern western countries are producing children at a level below the replacement rate. So why the concern with all of the bio-eco stuff? Start having more babies.

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Check out the Mark Ruffalo 2019 movie Dark Waters. It’s a true story of how Dow Chemical poisoned entire communities with PFAs while they raked in the cash from Teflon. They didn’t stop when they found out that babies of their workers were being born deformed or that the PFAs became even more toxic when heated. They just kept selling those non-stick pans and flushing their “leftovers” into water supplies all over the country.

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If I were conspiracy-minded, I might think there was a wilful agenda playing out here.

Either that or just bottom-line greed.

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It's no wonder that generation X has more balls because as kids growing up, all of our sodas were put in glass bottles, that we collected to trade in for more money to buy more sodas. I guess it also helps that back in the 70s, they weren't spraying over our cities every week and GMO foods was non-existence, plus our parents were allowed to sue big pharma in court, so they played nice with our generation.

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Isn’t this the plot of PD James’ Children of Men? 😳

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