Are we living through an infertility epidemic?

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Collapsing birthrates have inspired dramas from The Handmaid’s Tale to Children of Men, but it isn’t just science fiction any more. We might not realise it, but we’re living through an epidemic of infertility – and it’s getting worse. How did we get here? What does it mean when humans have fewer babies? And how do we turn it around? Jude Rogers finds out from world-leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologist Dr Shanna Swan, author of the cheerily-entitled Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development and Imperilling the Future of the Human Race. • “This is too fast to be merely evolution... This is a worldwide challenge, if not a catastrophe.” – Dr Shanna Swan • “Chemicals that affect hormones are influencing the decline in birth rates. We’re the guinea pigs… People need to exert pressure on governments to bring in legislation to stop that.” – Dr Shanna Swan Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jude Rogers. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.5	Brace yourself bunker, today we're talking about sperm and a subject that's no longer in the realm of sci-fi.
1:20.0	If you've read or watched the Handmaid's Tale or Children of Men,
1:23.6	you'll have seen dystopian visions of the future based on the idea of global infertility.
1:28.4	We're not there yet, obviously, but today's guest,
1:31.1	an award-winning American environmental and reproductive epidemiologist,
1:35.8	is the author of a book with a title to give us all pause.
1:39.1	Countdown how our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development,
1:45.5	and imperiling the future of the human race.
1:48.8	Here to tell us why we should be concerned and what we can do is Shanna H Swan. Welcome Shanna to the bunker. How are you doing?
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