One of the benefits of gas is that you can still use it to prepare food and boil water in the event of a power failure due to natural disasters and extreme weather. A battery backup is an essential part of an emergency kit in areas where this is a reasonable concern.

How so? (I'm assuming OOP is using the common definition of "animal" to exclude humans.)

But can we continue to provide for 8 billion people if we cease things like unsustainable farming practices and nonrenewable energy? (Without everyone agreeing to be vegan. That's not a realistic wish.)

I don't think so. I think there are too many humans, but my approach to the problem is to educate and empower each other to make our own family planning decisions rather than pressuring or forcing people to have children who don't want them. I believe that we'll naturally maintain sustainable numbers when allowed free choice in a healthy environment.

I don't think overpopulation is our biggest concern regarding unsustainability though, only a very small portion. We need to address more serious issues first, but the good news is that overthrowing capitalism addresses pretty much every problem simultaneously.

If you had a magic wand that could get rid of 7 billion people without any practical or ethical concerns, it still wouldn't be a good solution to the climate crisis because the remaining people would still be doing industrialism and capitalism. It would just keep happening.

But perhaps more importantly, I don't see any way to quickly lower the population without resorting to mass murder. Population degrowth can only be a long-term strategy based in a societal value of coexisting without excessive consumption, or else it's just an elite class deciding who's allowed to live and breed.

Thank you very much!

The Blood Moon is rising... (Terrarian)

Also some people attempt suicide and either survive or die briefly before revival so it's kind of not really the most sensitive joke.

That is the correct spelling in this context.

This is Crohn's erasure.

You might like the novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. I personally prefer to go into books without knowing much about them, so I will put the premise in a spoiler tag:

It has a fairly comic tone, which is very welcome given all the trauma.

The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical "person" with "woman".