Blame it on boomers in both business and government, running both in true live fast die young fashion.
Plastics pollution, BPA in our receipt paper, drugs and hormones being pissed out into our toilets into the common water supply - large parts of the global economy have been allowed to thrive due to neglect of appropriately pricing in negative externalities, if they are considered at all. What is the TRUE cost of using plastic in everyday product? What is the TRUE cost of the advertising and adoption of birth control pills, or OTC drugs? Some people benefit from short-term profits now, but in the end everyone loses.
Can't speak for parent, but birth control pills artificially boost estrogen levels.
My wife just emerged from a multiyear battle with aggressive HER2/ER/PR positive breast cancer after taking decades of birth control pills.
Correlation is not causation, but NHS are extremely strict about chemically induced menopause via Tamoxifen now, to suppress her natural estrogen production.
Plastics pollution, BPA in our receipt paper, drugs and hormones being pissed out into our toilets into the common water supply - large parts of the global economy have been allowed to thrive due to neglect of appropriately pricing in negative externalities, if they are considered at all. What is the TRUE cost of using plastic in everyday product? What is the TRUE cost of the advertising and adoption of birth control pills, or OTC drugs? Some people benefit from short-term profits now, but in the end everyone loses.