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Since when is anything that uses electricity evil? Should we survey the ROI on every industry or just shut down the Internet and power plants, and roll civilization back to the stone age? Maybe energy is underpriced. That's not the consumer's problem. Crypto is net positive.

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J. Anders Langberg (anders.tez)

@jalangberg

Mar 20, 2021

It’s not so black and white. When there are alternatives, it’s irresponsible to use an energy guzzling legacy alternative. If you do, mitigate. PoW showed the way, but PoS is here now. It’s doing what we can with tech we have. Regardless if it’s cars or crypto.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@jalangberg

It's not irresponsible. Market will decide what it values. Who's to say what people should be doing with the energy they buy? Should we dictate how humans should spend the calories they consume? The problem seems to be that dirtier forms of energy production are undertaxed.

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J. Anders Langberg (anders.tez)

@jalangberg

Mar 20, 2021

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@jespow

If your choices only affected you, I would agree. But calories as well as energy have a much wider impact, so we have to think about others. If we don’t, someone else eventually will. All energy have an ecological footprint, not just fossil based. So using less is just better.

Jesse Powell

@jespow

Mar 20, 2021

Disagree. Energy is not finite and it's not destroyed, anyway. We will have to use more energy as we grow the number of humans, get off the planet and populate the universe. The impact we care about is on the atmosphere and is specific to certain types of energy conversion.

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