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I'll shutdown my bitcoin mining operation if you shutdown your AC. I find 21c living to be incredibly wasteful and a luxury only offered to those blessed to be born in the first world.

This type of argument goes nowhere fast.

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Of course I can see. People’s sense of entitlement means we are all doomed. Mass extinction is always someone else’s fault, not my problem.

Please turn off your computer. You're wasting watts shaming first world folk. Go convince the 3rd world to stop burning trash and making babies. Oh, right - they'll stop by themselves when they reach your level of wealth.

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