Chemical Toxicity and the Baby Bust

| February 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment

Scott Greene UV Celltree, 2013, Oil on Canvas on Panel, 45x92 inches, Collection of the Artist, © Scott Greene, Previously on display in Environmental Impact

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Year of Publication: February 2020

Author(s): Jeremy Grantham

Newspaper: GMO Viewpoints

Unexpected threats to human fertility and, hence, chemical companies


In today’s society people are choosing to have fewer children, and delaying having children at all into later, less fertile years. These two factors have driven fertility rates below replacement level in most of the world, but a crucial third factor gets little attention and is having a profound impact on fertility: toxicity. The economic and social ramifications will be severe.

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