Homo Sapience, Does It Go Extinct?

At this moment of writing, we’re now officially on the list of Endangered species. Species that are on the verge of extinction and whose survival is unlikely if factors causing their decline continue to operate. For the perspective of humans, we are going into a mass extinction event, which will start within the next 20 years. That means that results in the loss of a significant portion of human species across a wide geographic area within a relatively short period of geologic time.

Congratulations, humankind. We managed to kill ourselves.

Why? The short answer is the decrease of the sperm count. Actually, the strongly decreased sperm count with men is one of the symptoms. Another symptom is the extreme slow growth of humans (1%), and the increase of the number of elderly and decrease of children. The reason? I write about the possible or likely reasons later in this article.

The rate sperm concentration is falling globally from samples collected from 1972 to 2000 (yellow) and since 2000 (red)

This fact is not unknown, many researchers have warned anyone who want to listen about this serious threat for years. Many other scientists and especially the politicians responded with words like ‘Drama’ and ‘Doom Thinking’ and totally ignored the issue.

Researchers tracked sperm counts and concentrations from semen samples across the world between 1973 and 2018 by looking at older studies. Men involved in this came from 53 countries, including Britain, the US and Australia. The study, in Human Reproduction Update, built on existing findings, which only looked at a fraction of the nations.

The analysis, which gives the first insight on trends in South America, Asia and Africa, also includes an additional seven years of data from 2011 to 2018. Data included figures for sperm count and concentration in semen samples.

Count refers to the overall number of sperm in a sample, while concentration accounts for how many of the reproductive cells there are per volume of semen.

• Results showed the mean sperm count fell by 51.6 per cent between 1973 and 2018 across men from all continents.

• And concentrations have been falling by 2.64 per cent per year since 2000, quicker than the previous drop of 1.16 per cent annually from 1972. The results ended in 2018, four years ago. To include the results util 2022, the sperm count fell by 62.16% (51.6 + (2.64 x 4))

• It will take maximum 18.3 years to reach the zero sperm count with the concentrations of 2.64% per year.

Trends seen previously in men in North America, Europe and Australia have gotten quicker, the team said.

And they were also seen in those from South America, Asia and Africa, suggesting any future baby bust may not be limited to the global North.

Professor Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said: “We urgently call for global action to promoted healthier environments for all species and reduce exposures and behaviors that threaten our reproductive health.”

The question is why? According to Professor Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, said that “everywhere chemicals such as phthalates found in toiletries, food packaging and children’s toys and smoking tobacco and marijuana and rising obesity rates, are to blame”.

If you think that we suddenly can live clean, think again. That’s a very long process, and we’re really too late trying this, and it’s not a guarantee that this will help at all! This trend will not change, it will only accelerate. We’re indeed endangered and belong at this moment on the list of Endangered species, or we need to be treated as such.

Previous research has suggested birth rates in developed nations have been falling for years, which has dragged down the overall rate. The average woman had two-and-a-half children by 2020, compared to five 50 years ago. Very soon (in some years), the average woman have a half child (statistically speaking) and after that zero children.

• This crisis tops any other crisis. You realize that the chance to survive a nuclear war is actually higher than this crisis, where humankind can’t produce any children anymore.

• Also, we’ll reach the point of no return within 18.3 years. I wonder when ‘our dear’ governments will notice.

• And that means that the world (without humans) will witness the end of the human species after about 80-100 years.

The whole thing sounds like a bad Sci-fi movie.

But continue with abortion and women rights. How faster, the better, not?