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>Should one actually hope for a massive crash, just so the planet can be saved?

The only reason anyone would bring up BTC regarding climate change would be to distract from the harm caused by oil, gas, mining, and oceanic shipping companies.



That's whataboutism. Other harms existing does not make it okay for you to do harm.


There's limited effort in fighting these things. If you're choosing your fights intelligently, it's terrible to switch off to go kill BTC's electricity usage because it's a small part of the ongoing problem.

Just because it's not significant doesn't mean we have to forget about it. We can always tackle BTC's problem later.




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