It has resulted in many technological advances. It has resulted in a plethora of rules and regulations. It has affected and continues to affect the lives of everyone on this planet. In the process, we have done ourselves and our environment grievous harm. Many pesticides have estrogenic properties or have breakdown products that have estrogenic properties.
Many plants have secondary metabolites that are estrogenic.
In 1994, as part of the requirements for a nutrition course I was taking, I prepared a document, I titled Estrogens and Estrogenic Exposure . It barely touches the surface of this large cross-disciplinary topic. Much work has been done since 1994. Feel free to email comments, corrections or criticisms. I feel this is a serious environmental problem, which, from where I stand, has received little public attention.