"The shorter generations of the medaka fish make it an ideal candidate for this type of study, and we can generally translate the findings from fish to humans as well...
“Findings showed a 30 percent decrease in the fertilization rate of fish two generations after exposure and a 20 percent reduction after three generations. If those trends continued, the potential for declines in overall population numbers might be expected in generations far removed from the initial exposure.”
Smithsonian: China adopted a “one-child” policy that led to huge numbers—possibly 100 million—of coerced abortions, often in poor conditions contributing to infection, sterility and even death. Millions of forced sterilizations occurred.
"Legislative change came relatively quickly. Congress re-wrote the federal Comstock laws in 1970, formally removing the obscenity label from contraceptives. Two years later, the Supreme Court released the Eisenstadt v. Baird decision, extending contraceptive rights to the unmarried. In 1973, the critical Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion and elective sterilization and its companion opinion, Doe v. Bolton, declared policies designed to restrict access to abortion unconstitutional. With the help of such groups as ZPG, and with the leadership of “women’s liberation” organizations, the idea of “ reproductive rights” was now part of the national discourse. And politicians started taking a special interest in population issues.
Amazing changes resulted. The total fertility rate in the U.S. dropped from an average of 3.4 children per woman in the early 1960s to 1.8 in 1975. The doubling time of U.S. population rose by 14 years between 1968 and 1975, and natural increase dropped from an annual growth of 1.1 percent to 0.9 percent. In 1983, Paul Ehrlich pointed out that he had been stunned by the reproductive revolution of the 1970’s, of which the flowering of ZPG was both a cause and a symptom. If ever an organization was serendipitously founded, ZPG was.
In the 1970’s, ZPG opened vasectomy clinics. Today, ZPG hands out condoms with the wrappers embossed, “Save the world: Use a condom.” Reducing the world population to three billion would not automatically cause a vast improvement in our quality of life; it would, in fact, most certainly have a detrimental effect if the population declined through famine, pestilence, or coercive government practices. Originally, ZPG specifically targeted the white middle class. As Paul Ehrlich wrote in 1970 in the ZPG National Reporter,
Overpopulation in the United States is essentially a white middle-class phenomenon because the white middle-class majority use up more than their share of resources and do more than their share of polluting. [ZPG’s] literature speaks to this reality by making an urgent plea to members of the majority white middle-class society to voluntarily limit their families to two children.
ZPG now speaks to an increasingly diverse audience. We must extend our message to reach all. The message must appeal to the rich, the poor, and the middle class. I want to call it Zero Population Growth.” And I said, “It’ll never catch on. People will think that it means ‘no people.’ The ZPG PETNet, an extensive network of activists and educators, trains thousands of teachers each year to incorporate population and environmental issues in the classroom....The CEOs of both National Geographic Society and Monsanto have used the video in boardroom presentations....Pamela Wasserman, Director of ZPG’s Population Education Department"
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IIJOSEPHXII ago
How can you sterilize for 3 generations? If you're sterilized, you are the last generation.
mememeyou ago
Guess they've been looking into that.
mice
BPA unlikely to be harmful, federal study shows
think there is something here... with Covid vaccines & BPA
goatsandbros ago
Decreased fertility =/= sterilization. No amount of hand waving can make up for retarded writers.
mememeyou ago
whatever helps you sleep at night, this shit is creeping me out more the deeper i dig
brands using BPA
The UN. Paul R. Ehrlich population bomb back cover
Population fragmentation may reduce fertility to zero
30 years of Zero Population Growth (1998):
"Legislative change came relatively quickly. Congress re-wrote the federal Comstock laws in 1970, formally removing the obscenity label from contraceptives. Two years later, the Supreme Court released the Eisenstadt v. Baird decision, extending contraceptive rights to the unmarried. In 1973, the critical Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion and elective sterilization and its companion opinion, Doe v. Bolton, declared policies designed to restrict access to abortion unconstitutional. With the help of such groups as ZPG, and with the leadership of “women’s liberation” organizations, the idea of “ reproductive rights” was now part of the national discourse. And politicians started taking a special interest in population issues.
Amazing changes resulted. The total fertility rate in the U.S. dropped from an average of 3.4 children per woman in the early 1960s to 1.8 in 1975. The doubling time of U.S. population rose by 14 years between 1968 and 1975, and natural increase dropped from an annual growth of 1.1 percent to 0.9 percent. In 1983, Paul Ehrlich pointed out that he had been stunned by the reproductive revolution of the 1970’s, of which the flowering of ZPG was both a cause and a symptom. If ever an organization was serendipitously founded, ZPG was.
In the 1970’s, ZPG opened vasectomy clinics. Today, ZPG hands out condoms with the wrappers embossed, “Save the world: Use a condom.” Reducing the world population to three billion would not automatically cause a vast improvement in our quality of life; it would, in fact, most certainly have a detrimental effect if the population declined through famine, pestilence, or coercive government practices. Originally, ZPG specifically targeted the white middle class. As Paul Ehrlich wrote in 1970 in the ZPG National Reporter,
Overpopulation in the United States is essentially a white middle-class phenomenon because the white middle-class majority use up more than their share of resources and do more than their share of polluting. [ZPG’s] literature speaks to this reality by making an urgent plea to members of the majority white middle-class society to voluntarily limit their families to two children.
ZPG now speaks to an increasingly diverse audience. We must extend our message to reach all. The message must appeal to the rich, the poor, and the middle class. I want to call it Zero Population Growth.” And I said, “It’ll never catch on. People will think that it means ‘no people.’ The ZPG PETNet, an extensive network of activists and educators, trains thousands of teachers each year to incorporate population and environmental issues in the classroom....The CEOs of both National Geographic Society and Monsanto have used the video in boardroom presentations....Pamela Wasserman, Director of ZPG’s Population Education Department"