Pollution is causing penises to shrink and sperm rates to plummet, says reproductive health expert
sperm counts are just two consequences of chemicals produced by increased pollution, according to a professor of medicine and public health. Dr Shanna Swan of the Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York writes that humanity faces an “existential crisis” as a result of phthalates, a chemical used in the creation of plastics that impacts the hormone-producing endocrine system.