Forest is a clear exagerration, but this article goes over numbers.

A few weeks of ordinary household energy usage per NFT is realistic.

https://www.loop-news.com/p/the-big-problem-with-nfts-energy

No source but my poetic heart. But perhaps you've heard about the massive energy consumption of these magic bean systems?

We truly are in the era of more money than sense. I get that people want put their money into something other than virtually-worthless low-interest savings accounts, but where will we all be once the musical chairs stops?