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From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@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 <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel@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.