‘Falling sperm count threatens human survival’

[Marigold]

‘ Falling sperm count threatens human survival ’-
Is this good news, or bad?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/26/falling-sperm-counts-human-survival

 

[dianefairhall]

I would have thought that was being a bit over-dramatic. Maybe the planet would benefit from fewer people for a while?

 

[Margaid]

We've done this too aquatic creatures haven't we? The way the human race has abused this planet and all the other life forms on it maybe a spell as an endangered species would be a good thing.

 

[bigyetiman]

I can think of a few areas where I drive a bus that a falling sperm count would definitely benefit mankind.
Fewer people would be good for the planet

 

[Marigold]

Yes - I disagreed with the way the article seems to suggest that a ‘threat to human survival’ is a bad thing. It would solve many of the man-made problems of climate change, partly because people wouldn’t be around any more, polluting the planet, cutting down the rainforests, and exterminating other species. Sperm counts of zero by 2045 would do it more neatly, efficiently and gradually than a really bad pandemic which would simply kill much larger numbers of people than covid has managed to do.