Journalist Isabelle Oderberg has spent years researching the links between pollution and early pregnancy loss. What she has learned keeps her up at night
showed that Queensland’s Noosa River saw benthic biodiversity fall from 9,000 individuals and 150 species in 1998, to 1,114 individuals and 50 species in May 2018. If that was the decline in two decades, the trajectory means that pretty soon there won’t be any river-life at all. And what is the effect of chemicals on humans living nearby?
There’s no doubt you’ve seen plastic containers at the supermarket proudly bearing the label BPA-free. What that means is that they do not contain bisphenol A, a dangerous endocrine-disrupting chemical. Not only can it raise your risk profile in terms of miscarriage and early pregnancy loss, but it can have a wealth of other negative effects on physiology to humans, including those in utero. But what you don’t know is that it’s in lots of other places, including supermarket receipts.
The way we test and regulate chemicals that are freely available in this country for a range of purposes must be immediately overhauled for the safety of the population and the biosphere we depend on. A recurring theme of novels set in dystopian futures is infertility: think The Handmaid’s Tale or The Children of Men. The reality is that these books are a blueprint for the future unless we turn this ship around.Every single expert I spoke to in the context of my research on miscarriage said that while we’re not tracking miscarriage numbers, they believe miscarriage rates are rising. These are not crackpots.
Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Her research shows that sperm counts in the west
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