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Guy producing a lot of climate destructive code feels proud to fly 1.5 million miles. Something is seriously broken with our civilization and the humans it produces do behave like a very stupid software bug.

How can an understanding of fundamental values be so wrong?

We need to start educating our children not to be proud of destroying the planet.

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Are you as critical of other major industries that contribute far higher amounts of CO2 (mining, banking ,entertainment, oil/gas production, fishing/farming)?

Otherwise it's hard to take your comments very seriously.

We all now that there are other destructive industries, yes, of course we should talk about these too. But for obvious reasons right here what is it about? It is about blockchains - an industry that has not only extraordinary large energy footprint for what it achieves, but also has a very special property: nobody needs it.

Difference being crypto serves no purpose and nobody needs it.

People having needs which you don't even know about, yet they can fulfill via transactional exchange, are precisely why it's needed. If your fiat currency cannot buy it, but it can be bought, your currency has a bug likely built in as a "feature". Crypto addresses this class of bugs while your currency provider was established to create them.

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