Feeling violent, sexually dysfunctional, like a man that should lactate for his babe? This is not the real you, nor your choice. You have been poisoned! Tackling hormone disrupting plastic pollution: ‘We can't recycle our way out of this’

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There is no free lunch.

In earlier eras, life was significantly more natural, without all these engineered materials present. Then again, in earlier eras, criminal and domestic violence was more common, and medicine was far less effective in limiting suffering than modern medicine is today. There was a lot of suffering.

Today, modern medicine and fantastic advances in sanitation have massively curtailed certain types of suffering. That said, just as the OP puts in their headline (not the headline of the attached article), we are only beginning to discover the many brand-new types of suffering being generated by our modern industrial societies. With autism and sexual dysfunction going through the roof, it's clear that there is a cost to this hyper-industrial environment.

For now, the best we can do as individuals is to try to find the best balance between the benefits of our new artificial world and the benefits of simpler systems that have been around for thousands of years. Newer is definitely NOT always better. Learning which new elements to ignore and which to adopt is the challenge each of us must face on our own. Advertising and marketing are sure as hell not going to help us in this endeavor.