

Endocrine disruptors are an important topic in environmental biology. They certainly have effects on wildlife, but Jones clearly didn’t understand it very well. There’s a pretty good overview on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor









To “effect” something is to make it happen. “Effecting change” is the typical usage.
To modify something is to “affect” it. So children are affecting their environment.