Chemical Cocktail
It is said in an ironic tone of voice by some enlightened, cynical scientists, that today we live inside a giant, manmade laboratory. Live through a giant, mindless experiment. A lot of ingredients are recklessly thrown in and we don’t dare imagine the result. Most of these ingredients are poisons, used in some misunderstood notion, in order to protect humanity from the perceived harsh environment.
Some years ago, there were several works published where the writers were very aware of this and similar subjects. Including articles published in Nature and a book aptly entitled Our Stolen Future. Complementing former published books on the subject, among them a book even more aptly called Silent Spring, written in the early sixties. There was some initial uproar as some attention was paid to the presented information, but typically, as always, the public interest quickly faded.
The articles, books and studies dealt with the effect long term influence of environmental estrogens have on human flesh and also, ultimately, on human behavior.
Basically, it goes like this:
We start life as female. All of us. Then the natural influx of testosterone in male fetuses changes them in the way predetermined by the genetic code. This development is blocked and sometimes reversed by influence of a special kind of pollutants ever more often called environmental estrogens. It may cause children «meant to be» male to be born female. A simple chromosome screening determines that the child who looks like and is a girl in all outward ways, is «supposed to be» male. In others, not so extreme cases, it causes changes in the hormone release and early changes in the brain, making us more docile, less wild. More likely to accept what’s being done to us. In fact, if I were most people I would have questioned every, single decision I’ve ever made, especially those concerning obedience toward authorities. I’m not suggesting that all sheep mentality has a chemical cause, far from it, only that it contributes to it.
Females, by the way, are not much better off, if at all. One of the more pronounced effects of the unnatural, chemical society we’re born into, is an enormous increase in cancer cases. Especially brain tumors among children seem to have exploded in recent years.
Besides, there are chemicals making females grow male organs, among them a compound of ship paint.
It has always been claimed and assumed by those in power that environmental estrogens are a much weaker agent than those naturally produced by the body. This is true, as far as it goes.
One type of «environmental» estrogen is exactly as weak and inactive as was supposed. The dramatic change comes into effect when there is present a mix of agents, a chemical «cocktail» of estrogenic and other pollutants. When two or more in itself «weaker» chemicals are influencing an individual, their sum of the parts are far more potent and far more dangerous than each single ingredient should indicate. And as usual humanity as a whole remains clueless.
All species are affected, of course. These factors, along with the climate breakdown and general destruction of nature and animal habitats make a heavy contribution to the Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event. Sixty percent of all animals have vanished on the planet the last fifty years. And it's an exponential development, going faster and faster each year. Bees and other insects are declining, and so are birds, and most other wild species. The poisons we've used to handle insects have a dramatic impact. It took some time. The first poisons made to kill insects were mostly ineffective, so we made ever more powerful poisons, and they’ve finally started to have a dramatic effect. It was said, for instance that a cockroach would survive a nuclear war. If we manage to kill off the cockroach, we should really be worried.
As I keep stating, we’ve become the Sixth Great Mass Extinction Event. We’ve become like a cosmic disaster. The poisons have spread all over the planet. A polar bear carries just as much poison in his body as any given human being in a major city.
And most people, if they have considered it all don't think this will affect humans. It does, of course, both because of the decline in the numbers of animals and in the decline of the number of species, and the obvious fact that the chemicals themselves affecting us. We’ve shit in our own bed for so long, now, and the effects have long since turned dramatic and deadly.