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Oof I think you couldn't be more wrong on this point. I think environmental contamination is the issue that most strongly can unite both left and right. Believ
by zug_zug 6y ago
Oof I think you couldn't be more wrong on this point. I think environmental contamination is the issue that most strongly can unite both left and right.
Believing more in conspiracy is actually a great reason to mistrust the water supply. Given that men's testosterone and sperm rates have been falling for decades (with no cause known, but best hypothesis is chemicals in environment)[1], I particularly expect there to be a common ground.
After all, Alex Jones (right-wing, conspiracy theory nut) has been concerned about a herbicide named atrazine that arguably can change the gender of frogs (he mistakenly said turn them gay). "A 2010 Hayes study concluded that atrazine rendered 75% of male frogs sterile and turned one in 10 into females,"[2] and atrazine is just one of many such man-made "xenoestrogens" [3].
In fact, I'm a bit shocked how slow both sides are to start caring about this issue.
1 - https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-counts-continue-to-fall/572794/ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-cou...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine#Amphibians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine#Amphibians
3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Common_environmental_estrogens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Common_environmen...