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How do you feel about North American urban planning? Suburban sprawl, miles and miles of asphalt to build roads, concrete and wasted space for parking lots, large and inefficient single-family homes... these are far more wasteful than someone running a computer at home. Worse still, these things are subsidized by all taxpayers, unlike a miner's electric bill.
Strawman argument. No one is stating that this might not be an issue. People are totally able to complain about multiple things. But let me tell you: it's much easier to bash crypto as it's new and fresh and very scammy and bad. It's a good thing that we stand up and say no to it for now to stop the already giant waste it creates. We don't need an Additional co2 creater with zero benefit.
Ethereum will switch to PoS next month, and there will be hundreds of thousands of nodes around the world, in aggregate they will run on a fraction of the energy consumed by the millions of video game consoles while idling.
By all means, complain about Proof of Work all you want but get off the high horse. Those "bashing crypto" and talk about "the waste it creates" are usually so covered in privilege they can't even be bothered to actually go to put the numbers in perspective.