On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:57 AM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > Date: 12/9/17 11:37 AM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:24 AM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > > Date: 12/8/17 8:42 PM (GMT-08:00) > > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > sik fuk
IVF, too. It's quite normal, so really, sex isn't "necessary". Sure is fun, though. > > And I find that most who decry the use of "unnecessary things' by > others > > You think I include myself out? Really? > > Hahahaha! No, I think you belong squarely in the category of moral pecksniffs who would deny "unnecessary things" to others to "save the planet". > Tell you what. Save evolution the work. Extinct yourself now... > > Rr Too late - I already have two children. I just wish I had more. Also, I burn wood in my fireplace, and have both a car and a big ol' pickup truck, and I commute with the latter to work, getting roughly 9-10 mpg. Kurt
