On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:24 AM, g2s <[email protected]> wrote: > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kurt Buff <[email protected]> > Date: 12/8/17 8:42 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:31 PM, g2s <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: Michael Nelson <[email protected]> > > Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00) > > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > You denigrate your point by stating sex isn't necessary. Ropes whips and ioT > glow in the dark vibrators aren't, but sex is as necessary to the survival of > humans as sleep is. > > Rr
Artificial insemination. And I find that most who decry the use of "unnecessary things' by others because of the danger to the planet, also tend to be against perpetuation of the species anyway. Kurt
