Laut Studie sind Toxine und Klimaschäden wahrscheinlich die Ursache für verminderte Fruchtbarkeit

Quick. Someone notify the White Christian Nationalists. They are insisting that masturbation to pornography is what’s causing it.

It’s very clearly the economy. Most people living in developed countries can no longer afford to have more than 2 children.

I think India could be a great place for the world to send it“s toxins. 

The article here is terrible – it conflates the society-wide *fertility rate* that has been the headline of several demographics-related press cycles with individual reproductive *fertility*, which is the subject of the linked study. Most of the other comments here have the same confusion.

The former is dropping because of birth control. Full stop; you don’t need any other chemical explanations. People are not having kids because they are choosing not to have kids. Then you can go dive into a lot of other social and economic trends to figure out why they’re choosing not to have kids, but that has nothing to do with biology.

The linked study is actually a more interesting question, and it’s calculating the effect of environmental toxins (largely phthalates and PFAS) on *several different species*, humans among them. On an environmental level, it’s trying to answer „Why are fewer young being born in many species, with the species at risk of going extinct?“ On the human level, it’s trying to answer „Why do some couples, even when trying to get pregnant, fail to? And why is that rate increasing?“