On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:31 PM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mi...@yahoo.com> > Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > >> The mapping between Bitcoin and energy is missing the point... > > Not if the point is a dead planet. > > That's ALL I care about. Cars, which you mention, are another much thornier > issue because they've been made a social necessity and that will take time > to undo. As with another not often acknowledged source of carbon based > pollution due to humans... The factories that make damn near everything > consumer industrial societies have. > > But unlike those things, bitcoin generates huge amounts of pollution due to > its electric demands, and, bluntly, it isn't necessary in any way shape or > form.
Neither are coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, sex and any number of other things that offend the sensibilities of the overly sensitive, and they aren't likely to disappear either... Kurt