"This means that in order to have Bitcoin serve as the daily currency for all of Argentina's 50 million people would at least 50-tuple its energy consumption."

This comment is beyond dumb and just showcases that you have no clue whatsoever about how bitcoin works. Bitcoin's power consumption doesn't go up when more people use it. It goes up when more people COMPETE for the production of the next block, meaning when there are more miners.

Also more than 50% of bitcoin's power consumption already comes from renewable sources.

Also youtube and online gaming need many times more power and I'd argue that a global, open, permissionless financial network is far more important.