Please explain to your friend that the weight gain that birth control causes is NOT the kind of weight gain she wants. Please tell her she's not doing the right thing. REALLY. I mean the internet in particular is like the biggest thing since agriculture I think without the collective ability of humanity will struggle to come together without an effective means of communication and co operation. Are we just going to collectively stop using the billions and billions of electronic devices that already exist? Are we going to collectively decide to not utilize the infrastructure and knowledge that we already have to produce more should we need to? The only question that remains is whether or not we can obtain the resources required to produce such things without the massive amounts of exploitation currently required. And considering the absurd scale at which capitalism produces e waste, I see no reason to think that we couldn 1) re purpose a significant number of the billions of existin