Why Is the Fertility Rate Falling? with Dr. Shanna Swan

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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There are a lot of causes of the declining global birth rate – education, freedom, and even the decline of subsistence agriculture. But what if one of the biggest factors was … plastic? Epidemiologist and author Dr. Shanna Swan joins Adam this week to break down why phthalates affect our fertility as well as our overall health. They cover her scientific research into phthalates, how they get into our systems, how they disrupt the development of reproductive organs, and what this means for the continuation of the human race. For Dr. Swan's book Count Down, as well as other books written by guests of this podcast, go to http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You have to get over it.
0:19.0	You have to get it.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover.
0:31.0	And you know, humans have been around for a while.
0:34.0	Some hundreds of thousands of years here on Planet Earth.
0:38.0	But for most of that time, there actually weren't that many of us at all.
0:42.0	Like, go to 10,000 BC and there are just a couple million people globally across the whole Earth.
0:47.0	There were literally probably more giant beavers at that point than there were human beings.
0:53.0	It takes another 9,000 years for the global population to top just 100 million
0:58.0	and another 2,000 after that to get to 300 million people
1:02.0	and another 800 years all the way up to the year 1800 for that population to hit a billion.
1:10.0	But let's pause here a second.
1:12.0	A billion people in the year 1800.
1:15.0	That's just a little over 200 years ago.
1:18.0	Since that time, the human population on Earth has exploded.
1:22.0	We are talking a growth of about 8 billion people in just the last 220 years.
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