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The problem is not that they're not addressing it, or trying to, or at least thinking about how to. The problem is that criticism of crypto's electricity use is immediately dismissed with "but POS will solve that" as if it has already solved it. Which it hasn't.

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In the interim we've had zero accountability for the huge Co2 emissions or GPU shortages because of ETH mining for the last 5 years.

Will the Ethereum community offset the carbon footprint of their pet project?

Huh, I get the impression people know it's bad _now_ and that's the _reason_ they're switching.

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