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?

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?