Reject the premise. There’s nothing shameful about Bitcoin and there’s no need to “justify” your support of Bitcoin “despite” its environmental trade offs. Make the asker justify their usage of planes for transportation.
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No. Tell them you paid for your electricity like everyone else, and your private consumption is none of their business.
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This. If only people didn't have jobs, they wouldn't have money to buy electricity to use on things we don't like. We should not accept the premise that Bitcoin has ANY environmental impact. Problem seems to be energy too cheap relative to enviro. cost or money too easy to earn.
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"energy too cheap for the environmental cost" means you support a carbon tax?
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I don't know if energy cost is too cheap but I do generally prefer taxes to outright bans.