Male births are dropping in numbers worldwide. Some communities are seeing drastic male-female ratio changes to the point where 75% of children are now female.

The "mechanism" for the decline is that males feotuses are aborted because of severe congenital ["in the uterous"] defects, the way nature protects against having too much deformity in a population. In other words, when a developing male feotus is not developing normally it will be aborted naturally. Miscarriages are increasing worldwide, perhaps you know someone who has had a miscarriage...

It is said that a decrease in male births is a major indication for extinction of any species.


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Why? - it is obvious to researchers and scientists, but they have not been allowed to speak up. Two chemicals are primarily responsible:
The first one, called Bisphenol A, is a well-known endocrine disrupter that was used since 1940 by doctors in horemone replacement therapy for menopause treatment; despite that fact, the chemicals industry is denying that Bisphenol A has the potential to change human or animal horemone levels.

The second one is Phthalates, which causes damage in utero to the male reproductive systems - shrunken testicals, small penis.

Both of those chemicals contribute to the high levels of damaged sperm found in males today. The changes seen in the past decade are dramatically different from any decades previous, indicating that a saturation point has been reached for our ability to deal with the presence of these two chemicals.

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Quotes from a TV documentary shown in Canada last night called "The Disappearing Male" [shown on Thursday November 6, 2008]:

"Some researchers say that declining male fertility rates could be the first sign of extinction."

"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." Dr. Herbert Needleman

The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system.
The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer.

The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world.

Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development.

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so, this is it folks, the denials of the chemical industry are coming back to haunt us all. And, this is just TWO of the 90,000 chemicals created in the past century from fossil fuels.