The Green parties and groups around the world are possibly the most stupid groups of humans that exist. I'm very pro-green. I love nature and all. But the 'green' people tend to do more harm than good to that end which is infuriating.
It's not hard to completely blow this idea that bitcoin is a devastating energy drain out of the water. Even an uninformed pleb like me can still use google:
power consumption of the traditional banking sector stands at a whopping 4,981 TWh, more than 50 times more energy than Bitcoin.
And in a peer-reviewed research paper:
Bitcoin consumes at least 28 times less energy and can run today with 60 times less energy than the classical system. At a single transaction level and with total volumes accounted for, Bitcoin produces equivalent energy efficiency rates or better. When Bitcoin Lightning is compared to Instant Payment scheme, Bitcoin gains exponentially in scalability and efficiency, proving to be millions of times more energy efficient per transaction than Instant Payments.
It's the same kind of alarmist stupidity we see in all walks of life, it's just the greens have concentrated it into a cosmic singularity that just bursts all of its quantum ignorance all over our faces.
The classic example demonstrated in the picture here is their retarded demonization of Nuclear Energy, you know, the greatest, safest source of clean energy mankind has ever created. Now Germany, having shut them all down for literally no reason, is desperately dependent on that apparently superior energy called Russian Fossil Fuels. Classic.
I know, deep down, most of them mean well. Even the most infuriating eco-activists mean well, but Christ, sit down and spend a minute ruminating on your points before you start gluing yourselves all over the roads or we might just start running you over. It's more energy efficient that way, after all.