Question

boon and bane of electricity

Answer 1

Electrical energy comes from renewable and nonrenewable sources; it is generally inexpensive and readily available, but it leaves many appliances and heating units defunct when power supplies are interrupted. The benefits and drawbacks of electrical energy depend primarily on its source.

Answer 2

Depends upon whether you’re peeing on an electric fence - electrons cannot be blamed for what people do with them. How is electricity bad? - when you can’t see the stars at night, when you forget how to get along without it, when a power outage in winter is a scary survival situation.

I would say that electricity has been a boon, and any misuse of it is our own fault.