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Except what you're saying isn't true. There is a lot of evidence that fertility, especially male, is dropping. This isnt societal. The actual fertility rate of
by chneu 1y ago
Except what you're saying isn't true.
There is a lot of evidence that fertility, especially male, is dropping. This isnt societal. The actual fertility rate of sperm has been measured to be dropping.
This isn't "people aren't having kids." It's "male sperm is less fertile".
This is in addition to societal trends in developed countries to have less kids.
- jemmyw 1y agoThere are a number of studies. I wouldn't call that a lot of evidence, because they don't agree on the results. And, because the methodology changes over time, it's probably just not possible to say that there is evidence of change between pre and post-90s papers. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-022-00626-w.epdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-022-00626-w.epdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-sperm-counts-really-declining/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-sperm-counts-... There need to be more studies of higher quality to actually establish what is happening. It's really not clear right now that anything is happening, and, if it is, if it's even a problem.