It won’t cause extinction – assisted reproduction solves
MATTHEW Rozsa and Swan, 2021 – Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer at Salon. Dr. Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City “How plastics are making us infertile — and could even lead to human extinction” Interview, 4/4, https://www.salon.com/2021/04/04/plastic-pollution-infertility-extinction/ //DH
Is it even realistic to believe that we can beat this? Because there is a ticking clock and although we've been aware of the climate change crisis for decades, we have done nowhere near enough to address it. We're only now becoming aware on a wide scale about this crisis. And we only have a few decades in which to address it. Is it even realistic? Is it possible that we need to go through a grieving process and recognize that our species is about to become extinct?
Well, I don't want to minimize the seriousness of this. I think it's absolutely critical that we turn around the declines that we're seeing, but I don't think it is impossible. And the reason is that we have an option for continuing our species, which is a different kind than the options for climate change, which is that we have technology now to reproduce even in the face of very severe decline. We have all kinds of all manners of assisted reproduction that allow us to have healthy children.