Extinction Threat: Jeremy Grantham Letter on Chemical Castration
Folks in investing circles may know the name Jeremy Grantham. He predicted the 2000 Dot Com crash and the 2008 financial meltdown.
He published this letter on February 6, 2020. For those that either did not read my post Mustang part VI, or thought I was overdressing in tinfoil, his post may alert you to the problem I sought to point out.
I pointed out in my post that in a couple decades Western men will effectively be sterile. In this post he agrees.
"The particular surprises for 2019 have been: 1) in Japan, whose 864,000 births were fewer than every year when its records began in 1899, when the population was about 40% of today’s; 2) in the U.S., where the baby cohort was the absolute least for 32 years and the fertility rate an all-time low of 1.73 children per woman; 3) in China, whose baby cohort dropped to 14.6 million, the lowest in 70 years (ex the 1961 famine) and whose fertility rate – if they don’t change the data – will be well below 1.6 children per woman; and 4) South Korea, where, shockingly, the fertility rate fell below 1.0! Probably for the first time anywhere in peacetime since the Bubonic Plague."
I haven't yet finished the read, but it's off to a strong start, and I expect it to end just as strong. He might mention it later, but one of the features of the current epidemic in China that has alarmed me is that it seems to infect ~three men for every woman.
I haven't previously discussed this fact, but given the war on men I have, this seems far too directed at men to be coincidence. Militant feminists might initially rejoice at this. However, if 4 women per man actually affects society, that ratio will dramatically devalue women, and men, particularly fertile men willing to raise children they father, will be extraordinarily powerful, desirable, and valuable.
That fact does not bode well for sexual equality.
Please read this letter and heed the alarm call it raises. It is far too late to prevent much of the social upheaval endocrine disruption is going to cause. It may not be too late to prevent the worst effects that will happen if we do not act immediately and decisively to end this threat to the human race.
I have pointed out that this is a form of genocide if being done intentionally (as I have argued, based on simultaneous propaganda, lawfare, and other social disruption exacerbating the chemical castration, to which I now add the sexual bias of the Kung Flu, and point out that same sexual bias warfare exhibits), or potential extinction of our species even if it's just an extreme fuckup. Reproductive behaviour is an essential feature of every species, and utterly eradicating or completely altering the reproductive behaviour of a species changes it into a new species - if it survives at all.
After all, species that stop reproducing go extinct.
This is not a drill. Humanity will live or die based on what we do about this threat.
Take immediate action.
Can we take some vitamins or what?
Good organic food will sure help a lot, because many pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides that are on food are pseudoestrogens, which cause decline in testosterone. Atrazine is the chemical that first alerted Alex Jones to the problem of frogs undergoing feminization, for example.
Most plastics also ooze various chemicals, many of which also reduce testosterone. Our waterpipes are plastic, and pvc is one of the worst plastics in this regard, and also extremely common as plumbing pipe. Almost all our food is sold to us packaged in plastic. Tin cans are lined with plastic because many canned foods are acidic and chemically react with the metals of the cans. Same with soda cans. Lots of implements we use to cook have plastic lining, and teflon is horribly destructive of testosterone.
Our shampoos, soaps, conditioners, deodorants, toothpaste, makeup, cleaning solutions, glues, solvents, paints, and clothes are all oozing testosterone destroying chemicals.
The problem isn't soluble by taking vitamins, particularly not if - as is the rule - those supplements come in plastic bottles.
It's not just Soy. Many drugs and additives in our food also do the same thing.
What will help is using glass containers, steel cookware, ceramic plates, cups, and bowls, wool and cotton clothes and fabric, such as furniture and rugs, organic glues and solvents and paints, and avoiding plastic and factory processed foods and products of every kind.
It's a lot of work to replace shampoos and hygiene products with ones that don't contain harmful chemicals. I brush my teeth with baking soda with a bit of mint powder in it to make it taste better (can't find a toothbrush that isn't plastic though. Gonna have to make my own). There are recipes for soap, and similar products you can make yourself, or buy from specialty boutiques or local crafters. Coconut oil, baking soda and cornstarch to stiffen it will make deodorant.
The organic food and homestead community here on Steem is well represented, with folks like @homesteaderscoop, @breezin, @minismallholding, and the @naturalmedicine community even offers it's own token, Lotus. I'd start searching through their follows to find more, and through their back catalogs for posts with recipes.
Stop allowing plastics to ooze into your body through your foods, hygiene products, clothes, plumbing, and cookware and utensils first, and then see about getting plastics and chemicals out of your house and car to the extent you can. Copper water pipes are expensive, and you can only replace the ones in a home you own. The local water utility probably uses plastic pipes, which you probably can't get them to change. It might be possible to filter out many chemicals, but water filters good enough to get hormone analogs out of water aren't cheap. They're also usually made of plastic LOL.
Lemme know if you find any good ideas, too. I'm trying to figure out just how impacted I am by endocrine disruption through my doctor now, but my GP originally told me they didn't even know how to test for it. Since my heart attack they are coming around, since low test is a strong factor in heart disease. You might get tested to see if you're in need of medical intervention to restore healthy hormone levels. Most people don't have any idea they have that problem, and most doctors don't even know it's as big a problem as it is.
Maybe show them Jeremy Grantham's letter.
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Still working my way through it at the moment. Very thought provoking so far.
Something that comes to mind is what he says about this being a crisis that should be paid more attention to and we should be worried. Perhaps a reason why many aren't particularly worried is because there's the prevalent belief we're over populated anyway, so this isn't seen as a bad thing to have it drop. Are we overpopulated or just well brainwashed to believe we are? 🤔
Any investigation into resource abundance and population reveals that we are not short resources, but that polities are extremely bad at rational development and distribution. My research has led me to grasp that it is the centralization and concentration of wealth that is the primary cause of environmental harm.
It is the rapine competition between institutions and the pathological individuals that seize power over them that drives the least expensive development mechanisms that causes environmental degradation, by enabling the least tiny profit advantage to capture resources. Utter disregard for society is inculcated by crony capitalism, and this is the fruit of inhuman and inhumane 'legal persons' being effected by psychopathic individuals focused solely on their own benefit.
Due to the least socialized individuals undertaking means of gaining power, that normal people refuse to undertake because of their human care and concern for their fellows, global resources are captured by institutions run by psychopaths. Despite institutions defining themselves (governments are institutions) as 'legal persons' they are not persons at all. They do not have human motivations and social connections like actual people do. They are innately inhuman and inhumane, and psychopaths deprived of normal social functionality therefore have strong affinity to institutions, capturing the parasitic power institutions are availed over individuals.
This is the actual problem, not human population, IMHO.
Thanks!
When we look at resource distribution, it does seem to indicate that population reduction would be for the benefit of the few who wouldn't want to change their lifestyle.
Eliminate the competition and you get to enjoy all the luxuries you want without too much harm to your environment.
What kept me from accepting this paradigm for decades was that while consumption is focused on the top 1%, production, from which that 1% parasitize all that wealth to consume with, is undertaken by the rest. That made them dependent on our production for their consumption, and made them loathe to kill us all.
Automation potentially eliminates our utility, and that dramatically changes my calculus.
We really don't compete with them for quality of life items. Personally, I eschew them to the extent possible. I intend to live hard and die free, as that's what I respect. Most of us didn't have a choice anyway. We're too honest to steal, and too nice to rob our robber barons. It's just how we're made.
I have hoped to inspire folks to undertake development and distribution of decentralized means of production to decrease their parasitization and increase their actual wealth and power relative to institutions, but I'm a tear in rain. A few folks listened to me and that got me banned off other platforms. C'est la guerre =p. I call that a win.
The problem the banksters have is they can't keep emasculating the professional military and count on them to wipe civilians out, and they can't replace the professional military themselves, because they're incompetent. They presently can't resort to automation entirely for their quality of life either, so we still have time to develop and distribute nominal means of production to render them less powerful.
If the professional military ever grasp they're being chemically castrated with the rest of us, God help the banksters. Sometime in the next two decades, they will know, and that will make them very, very mad.
I won't live long enough to see it happen, but I remain confident humanity will shake off it's fleas and deliver the stars to our posterity.
Thanks!
This planet already has 6 billion souls on it. There exists limited resources to feed the ever-increasing population. The decrease in population is not something to be alarmed, but a phenomenon, in which men find comfort. Decrease in population does not indicate looming extinction, but the human race finding equilibrium with its environment. There is no global conspiracy to poison the human race. There may be some deluded idiots who imagine themselves saviors of the planet, but there will always be idiots who think they are anointed to "reform" society. Decrease in birth rate is merely a consequence of socioeconomic realities of developed societies. The reason for pre-antibiotic era societies to have bred like rabbits is due to high infant mortality rate and death rate from infections. In the modern era of easily accessible medical care, at least in the rationally governed societies, there is no reason to birth a litter of young.
I know COVID-19 is looking bad for China, but I don't think you should write the Chinese population off entirely.
Well, thanks for that reassurance. [citation needed]
Personally, I think you're blowing smoke up my skirt, as is your wont. As usual, you ignore actual data and science and spout political propaganda encouraging obeisance to overlords.
Ain't gonna work on rational people. Any folks that swallow this load of crap demonstrate their evolutionary fitness, or rather their lack of it.
Thanks!
Rational people don't entertain paraoid delusions of zeroes because they don't require a never-ending list of excuses for their failures in real life. The reason for the conspiracy psychotics' failure at life is primarily due to their inability to adjust to the requirements of their sociocultural melieu, not because of some omnipresent, global cabal of naughty men. It is not the reform of society that is needed, but the correction of the zeroes' psychotic thoughts, acceptance of their station, and obedience to the rules of their sociocultural norms. The lunacy of those who can not even obey simple directions from their betters, deluding themselves into thinking they possess the ability to command social reform would be comical, if it is not so harmful to both the society and the zeroes.
Great term. It's the one thing of value in your comment that I will treasure going forward. It well describes the CCP, banksters, and all their ilk throughout history, and prior to it.
The rest is mere political opinion, which matters not at all to physics and the laws of the universe which mandate decentralization of means of production as the necessary advance in technology going forward. Individuals possessing those means will eventually be immune to parasitization, and this will make institutional power obsolete, along with politics.
It's been fun discussing these matters, and I appreciate your help in forming my understanding. That's probably over now. We'll see what the new world coming holds. Your dreams of a totalitarian despotism unrivaled in history may be coming true.
Thanks!
I'm reminded of the Spartans when I read these posts of yours about fertility rate and its implications on the sustenance of society and the species itself. Their society imploded through a combination of perpetual war and a lack of adequate reproduction to replace the warriors who perished in those wars. I did a post on it in my early days here on Steem after watching a documentary about it. It was very disturbing to learn of their cultural practices in regards to children and child-rearing. I had known about their infanticidal practices from my history classes, but the forced homosexual practices from childhood and the rape of boys as the preferred adult male sexual practice was probably considered too taboo for high schoolers and was equally as disturbing. Something else that I noted about them was that their economic philosophy seemed to closely mirror modern examples of communism. Why the Spartans are a celebrated icon is beyond my understanding. They seem to be one of the worst examples of humanity that has ever been seen.
I think we may have seen the same documentary. It was a talk eye opener.
There was something to be admired in an army trained to fight so well as to instill fear and respect through the ages, but it is funny that the price of this is rarely talked about. A society where only one thing is valued above all else has no balance and is pretty much guaranteed to collapse. You'd think it a lesson to be learnt from history, but instead we revere them for that fighting prowess and abstinence of all comfort, which ultimately brought about their extinction via their tunnel vision.
Something else I wanted to note here is that after reading Grantham's post, I think he may be oversimplifying the fertility issue. There are various factors that contribute to low male fertility like alcohol consumption, other recreational drug use, exercise, BMI, healthy diet, etc. It's not just the two issues he cites: delayed reproduction and chemical toxicity. Considering that we live in an increasingly sedentary and obese world, it's possible that this accounts for the majority of fertility decline. Synthetic endocrine disruptors aren't the only ones in existence either. Soy and other foods for example have high concentrations of phytoestrogens that may disrupt normal endocrine health. The prolific use of soy in foods coincides with the use of pesticides on the timeline in question, at least here in the US. Another coincident variable is prolific recreational drug use, particularly marijuana. If we banned all synthetic chemicals that can cause endocrine disruption tomorrow, we wouldn't suddenly have removed all of the potential variables that interfere with male fertility. There's much more to it than that.
There's also the question of whether the doses of these chemicals that people are typically exposed to would have any effect at all. Any research I've seen in this area is inconclusive and much of the evidence suggests no effect. This is not to say that one shouldn't be cautious when trying to conceive, but I consider it more of a "better safe than sorry" approach than a conclusive "this must be done or fertility will certainly be reduced."
It is very useful and wise to consider other potential vectors for the problem, and I would include others you did not mention, particularly vaccines. We are facing a problem though, and that is that research, as you point out, has not been done to quantify impact from these potential vectors. All we really can do is examine the timeline of incidence of the symptoms, and historical rise and fall of specific potential vectors.
Science can't actually prove a theory. It only can prove a theory wrong. Given this problem is ongoing and has nearly completed sterilization today, we don't have the luxury of awaiting disproving thousands of industrial chemicals are the causative agent of that chemical castration. That would take longer than the complete sterilization of humanity will, and time is of the essence. Many of us are sterile now. We need help now. Unless we're actively trying to have kids, we probably don't even know we are sterile. My doctor is obviously distressed that I even want to know if my endocrine system is healthy, and claimed to not even know how to test it. That is not a sign of a strong medical understanding and response to the ongoing problem of chemical castration, and is instead a demonstration of the power of propaganda demonizing masculinity affecting our health care institutions, a frightening thought.
Since WWII the amount of industrial chemicals introduced into the environment has exploded. This coincides well with the decrease in testosterone and decline in sperm counts in the West, as Grantham points out in the chart. Plastics are particularly prominent amongst new environmental inputs, but certainly are not alone. Biocides, food additives, pharmaceuticals, and hygiene products, amongst the mix, and all variously shown to have endocrine disrupting effects.
Soy, while relatively recently increased during that time frame in the West, has been in use for thousands of years in the East, and while it has been shown to have endocrine disrupting effects, certainly has not caused fertility there to be reduced below replacement levels.
Cannabis also. Indeed, cannabis is the oldest known agricultural product we have archeological evidence for: 12kya caches of cannabis seed from a Chinese site.
Alcohol, similarly, has an extensive history of use that is not correlated with fecundity decline. Actually, the propensity of folks to suffer reduced inhibition under it's influence is notorious.
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While I have actually quit drinking beer, use cannabis extremely sparingly, and avoid soy as I am able, for this reason, I note that the extended time that these have impacted humanity necessarily excludes them as primary vectors of the present challenge to fecundity. New vectors must have arisen coincidentally with the onset of the problem, and industrial chemicals meet that specification.
Additionally, there is a mechanism that explains that pathogenicity. By mimicking estrogen, they disrupt the endocrine system, and this effect has been studied extensively in both animals and humans. Therefore it is not irrelevant correlation, but provably causation.
In fact, fertility has been reduced already by more than half. It continues to be reduced, at an accelerating rate. It's too late to prevent fertility from being reduced, and various animals from actually having their sex changed by environmental pollution, because this problem is ongoing and speeding up. Fifty years ago you could have made that statement factually. You're fifty years too late to prevent this reduction in fertility from starting.
We may be able to reduce the harm we are suffering, and even end the problem with enough action to restore environmental health, and our own fecundity, to normal levels. As the chart shows, we don't have a lot of time to do this before human fecundity is utterly decimated, and extreme disruption to human societies eventuates (I am certain that disruption is already underway, shown by the massive immigration undertaken by the West to replace workers lost to declining birth rates). It's likely other species have already gone extinct as a result of this chemical pollution, and if we don't turn this around quickly, many more will. Maybe even us.
Let's not drive ourselves extinct by denying we are causing a new problem with new chemicals.
Thanks!
Edit: you mentioned obesity and sedentary lifestyle. While the decline in fecundity began around the end of WWII, those specific potential vectors did not arise until much later, around 1980, making them likely a symptom rather than a cause of endocrine disruption.
Your arguments are well considered. I find myself often being the contrarian, even amongst contrarians, because it's in my nature. This tendency has been amplified by my professional training to be persistently skeptical and avoid conflating evidence and proof. Maybe there's a bit of bias in there too considering that I've had no issues with fertility myself and that I've probably had higher doses of many of these chemicals than your average person. At the ripe age of 42, the last attempt to conceive with my wife was successful on the first go around, which is consistent with our past experiences as well. No signs of fertility drop here.
In the earliest years of my life when my family was below the poverty line, I ate almost exclusively processed foods, and my consumption of them, while somewhat lessened, persisted into my adulthood. Only until the last few years have I begun to watch my food intake. I also likely had some unusually heavy exposure to pesticides because I grew up adjacent to farmers' fields where they were sprayed year after year and I even worked the fields in my teenage years. I also spent a lot of time around petroleum products and nasty chemicals in the shop working with my father fixing old vehicles and equipment, along with scrapping metal. I breathed in a lot of smoke from burning rubbers and plastics while using the torch, along with whatever nasty chemicals that are in the smoke from arc welding, all while I was in my developmental years.
So in a situation like this, when a presented theory doesn't match my personal anecdotal observations, I tend to look for errors. I look at what makes me different from the infertile through process of elimination. The only advantage I can see for me personally is that I always got plenty of exercise either through work or play, and while my diet was laden with processed foods, I always ate a relatively balanced diet with plenty of protein and the vitamins and minerals required to thrive. In addition, I never had issues with weight. If anything, I have a hard time keeping weight on. This is the source of my suspicions on the sedentary lifestyle and obesity.
There's also a bit of fear. The idea of chemical castration terrifies me on a deep level. I'm worried for my children, and so I'd like it to not be true. Regardless, thank you for taking so much time to respond. I'm always challenged by your posts and I want you to know that this isn't just me being antagonistic. I genuinely enjoy the discussion. Thank you!
Me too. I don't post stuff I think everyone will upvote. I post stuff I think matters, and do my best to make sure it's true. I deeply appreciate criticism (and I viewed your comment as criticism) because that is the only way I can learn truths I have not understood, and change my mind to become right. I am not being sarcastic with my thanks for your comment.
If you look at my recent exchanges with @soo.chong163, you may see to just what unreasonable extent I do. He's an irredeemable communist, statist, and advocate of overlords with a mandate from heaven to rule we plebs. Despite I utterly disagree with him, I dearly love the challenge of understanding why and trying to state the reasons unequivocally.
I was raised on an island in Alaska, on wild game to a large extent, so our early nutrition was markedly different. However, I have since taken up work in the construction industry, and am daily drenched in toxic solvents, glues, caulks, and paints, as well as the sawdust from pressure treated lumber. I reckon I got a good start on good nutrition, although I probably have lost some of that benefit through recent decades of bad practices.
Once my kids were grown and out of the house, I quit hunting and fishing.
However, today I got back test results from my insistence on learning how I have been impacted by these chemicals, and I reckon I'm in better shape than I expected. I've never been the Harry Manback kinda guy, practically hairless TBH, but I have nominal test for my age, I think, given my neotenous phenotype. I am also dangerously fertile, which is scary for a single man today.
I hope what I've presented above doesn't inculcate a sense of helpless fear in anyone, but rather incites anger, and a determination to do something about it. I have three sons, and while I do get some love, they aren't interested in my rants about any damn thing at all now that they are in their 20's and know everything.
I can't wait until they have kids, and become as ignorant and foolish in their own eyes as I have been in mine as a parent!
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Yeah my father did get really good at deer hunting as I grew. We moved from an apartment to a house with a little land and lots of game animals in the area. Once that happened we always had real meat on the table. Before that it was things like hot dogs and mac n cheese and bologna and spam pretty much every day. I think we were even eating government cheese for a little while. I remember waiting in line once with my mother to get some disgusting cube of cheese food that she would make casseroles out of. I couldn't stomach many of those foods again until I was in my 20's. It's funny because I thought I didn't like meat when I was very young and my favorite food became steak.
I had to look up the word neotonous. I too was this and I didn't finish puberty until the end of my teens. I grew 4 more inches after my sixteenth birthday. I still have a light build in spite of my height.
My oldest is only 5 , but having kids does have a humbling effect, doesn't it? It forced me to face the cold hard reality of my shortcomings. I formerly rarely failed because I never had to step outside my comfort zoneI was never allowed to fail by the authority figures in my life. I fail all the time now but I'm better for it. I would now run circles around my younger self at anything but physical endurance. I say that knowing full well how truly ignorant I am of most things in the universe.
I'm trying to give my kids a jump start on that perspective. I anticipate that they'll have some sort of direction they want to head in by the time they're 11 or 12 and I intend on supporting whatever that looks like. We're not supposed to wait until 30 before we begin to sort the world out. That's what spending the first 20 years of consciousness in formal schooling environments does to people. It suspends mental and emotional development.
I hadda homeschool after what I went through. Glad I did.
Give it thought.
I was lucky enough to be as neglected as Dad could manage. Thanks to his neglect, I was fortunate enough to fail constantly, somehow never fatally. I did so many nearly fatal things I became sure I was gonna not step out of the way of the blazing pickup flying off the cliff at the last minute sooner or later, and die young.
Somehow I got old enough to have a heart attack. If you could have read my mind at 15, you'd know that is the funniest joke I've ever told.
Well, at least I have glorious memories to nod off to in my dotage.
=p
Already on the homeschool. Once I decided to do well in public school I was quite good at it. Turns out being good at school didn't prepare me for anything really. This is not to mention I hated every minute of it. Hell on Earth.