This article by the author/podcaster Seth Godin [1] highlights the issues with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) [2], built on the Ethereum cryptocurrency. It extends the ideas introduced in an Everest Pipkin post [3]:

> Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological.

The ecological issue is due to the energy consumption required to perform (some^) cryptocurrency computations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Godin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

[3] https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issue...

^EDIT: added “(some)” cryptocurrency computations based on Tenoke’s comment