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Best return on investment is most definitely finding new ways to produce energy and new ways to sequester greenhouse gases. Anything else is a minor dampener t
by knuthsat 5y ago
Best return on investment is most definitely finding new ways to produce energy and new ways to sequester greenhouse gases.
Anything else is a minor dampener to an exponential process.
Getting rid of Bitcoin is absolutely nothing compared to our exponentially increasing energy needs.
Lowering greenhouse emissions to 0 today would still result in dire consequences when the temperature increase comes, just from the massive n-th order effects.
I have no idea how the opinion of Bitcoin being so detrimental to climate came to fruition and how it's considered plausible at all.
- henearkr 5y agoWhether we develop new clean energies without reducing our energy consumption, or we reduce our consumption while doing the development, can make the difference between catastrophic failure and hope. This is why I think it is important.
- Bishizel 5y agoIt came to fruition because it’s creating vast new wealth in a fashion that is directly competitive to old wealth. It’s also easy because climate change is a real, pressing existential crisis. Take this with the caveat that most people won’t think past the headline, so lots of people don’t get to the obvious conclusion of “the way we generate power is the root problem” Lowering to zero doesn’t solve the problem, but it would help give us a longer runway.