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That doesn't make sense, if pollution was literally slowly killing us, and the planet, surely we would take some action to decrease pollution, and yet for my en
by TheDong 2y ago
That doesn't make sense, if pollution was literally slowly killing us, and the planet, surely we would take some action to decrease pollution, and yet for my entire lifetime we've exuberantly increased it, recently going so far as to build bitcoin, a popular competition to pollute as much as possible in exchange for prizes.
Weirdly, if I do any amount of research, it does seem like there's strong correlations between pollution and most kinds of cancer, what a wild coincidence.
- card_zero 2y agoBut the pollution in regard to bitcoin is CO2 from energy use. So this is an incredibly broad statement where you leap from cancer to climate change. "Killing us, and the planet"? Human activity in general causes trouble, that's your insight. We should take some action to curtail action? There already are pollution controls. Stronger pollution controls might be beneficial, sure, but is that the key to longevity? Or is the connection here that you regard longevity as similar to pollution?
- cess11 2y agoSomething like 45 % of BTC energy consumption comes from coal, a rather impressive carcinogen.