Ultimately, Levine and Swan say that local and global actions are needed to reduce or get rid of these chemicals in our environments. “We should find ways to prevent further decline and even reverse the trends,” Levine says. “We must avoid being complacent about it and fool ourselves that assisted reproduction is the solution.”
But assisted reproduction is extremely profitable and always has been, some powdered rhino horn to IVF; altering industries and markets is expensive and uncertain, and politicians are for sale to the highest bidder. Just 10 large donors spent $540 million on the recent US midterm elections. The fact that some prominent campaigns resulted in a loss does not mean they wasted their money, any more than a financial loss in business or gambling necessitates the end of a career.
To the extent that fiscal gain is the dominant organizing principle of human society, financial wealth is going to continue compounding one way or another to the detriment of other measures of wellbeing.
But assisted reproduction is extremely profitable and always has been, some powdered rhino horn to IVF; altering industries and markets is expensive and uncertain, and politicians are for sale to the highest bidder. Just 10 large donors spent $540 million on the recent US midterm elections. The fact that some prominent campaigns resulted in a loss does not mean they wasted their money, any more than a financial loss in business or gambling necessitates the end of a career.
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To the extent that fiscal gain is the dominant organizing principle of human society, financial wealth is going to continue compounding one way or another to the detriment of other measures of wellbeing.