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Because it's missing the forest for the trees. Look at total energy usage, across all industries. This is more an indictment of cryptocurrency than it is about
by JMTQp8lwXL 5y ago
Because it's missing the forest for the trees. Look at total energy usage, across all industries. This is more an indictment of cryptocurrency than it is about actually caring about the environment. Compare it to say, eliminating all gas vehicles for electric cars. Where is the HN thread advocating for that, if the end result would be massively fewer carbon emissions versus this proposal? My criticism is this proposal is like banning plastic straws. It's patting ourselves on the back, with no real solution.
- adamrezich 5y ago> It's patting ourselves on the back, with no real solution. modern politics in a nutshell
- kaesar14 5y agoAre you joking? There are plenty of conversations on Hackernews about electric vehicles, it just so happens that replacing every single car in the world with a totally different energy system is a way harder problem than banning useless cryptocurrencies that are burning energy to fuel equity bubbles.
- shawnz 5y agoOnly if you just consider how hard it is to ban, not how hard it is to replace while achieving the same utility.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo instead of dolvibg the hard problem well focus on something easy and useless. SV moto in a nutshell
- kaesar14 5y agoYou may have heard of this company Tesla based in Silicon Valley, one of the largest companies by market cap in the world, just led an electric car revolution that's inspired automakers worldwide to shift off IC engines
- joshuamorton 5y agoNo, it's addressing the low hanging fruit first. An efficient approach to solving a problem.