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> Today we’ll talk about a real crisis. The decrease of testosterone levels.

Why is it a crisis? What's the problem? Things change. But why is it a bad change?

(Assuming it's possible to even say what a "normal" testosterone level is).

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That line is tongue-in-cheek, the author agrees with you:

> Personally I see the decrease of testosterone levels more as a reaction to our changing environment than reason for concern. The world changes and we change with it.

Biological set points don’t usually change on these timescales and are always cause for concern.

Mental and physical health concerns in men.

When you see these school shooters that look like they are manic do you think they have high testosterone or low testosterone? Low testosterone leads to severe anxiety and depression in men as others have stated. I would not associate elevated (or normal) testosterone levels with violence, many of the PEDs that lead to violent outbursts are causing those outbursts due to the specific compound that is being used to raise testosterone, not the testosterone itself.

testosterone levels affect reproduction, if I remember correctly

So? It's not like there's to few people. Population growth can't be exponential forever.

Population growth is at the lowest level in decades.

Good. It still needs to get lower, to 0, or even better to a slow decline.

To have a global negative population growth rate could only happen in the case of a severe epidemic, something like the Spanish Flu did a 100 years ago (~100s of million died then).

This would not really be good for anyone.

> To have a global negative population growth rate could only happen in the case of a severe epidemic

Why? Europe (as an example) has a net population decrease, why can't this happen on a global scale without an epidemic?

This presupposes that humanity is better off with fewer humans. I am far from convinced that this is the case.

Sure, if you want society to collapse.

Are you suggesting we should annihilate the human race altogether?

This line of reasoning is dangerous, limiting our reproduction through social means is much less dangerous than if it’s in inflicted on humanity biologically.

Why is that?

Uncontrolled loss of reproductive ability could easily spiral and be the end of our species, that is assuming that we haven’t had the same affect on other species, which is not a given either.

“Children of Men” outlines what that might look like.

population is already expected to peak in a few years. check the maths.

Low T is associated with depression in men.

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