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Crypto contributes nothing but a speculative asset to society.

Meat production, while derailed into unsustainability, has a lot more utility and is also a lot harder to unwind from current culture. Try running a survey on which of the two people would rather forego, and your 100M to 6B ratio will look rather stupid.

One shitty behavior doesn't excuse another.

But this is an even worse argument than usual - the people speculating with crypto constructs are very often also part of the groups who consume a whole lot of meat...

Modern agricultural harvesting and processing always has a bykill of small mammals and ground nesting birds.

Organic farming often uses companion planting to attract natural predators of insect pests, so that insecticides don't need to be used (as much anyway, there's plenty of rather toxic compounds that are perfectly natural and organic yet kill things well, like derris dust).

How, though, do you distinguish between the suffering of cows, and the suffering of a dormouse, or the suffering of caterpillars that are being eaten from inside by the larvae of a parasitic wasp?

Are you basing your morality on "there's an arbitrary level of suffering I'll accept" or "I'm only opposed to the suffering of life that has at least N neurons?"

Or are you sweeping the path as you walk lest an ant be harmed?

And I still wouldn't like it. Proof of Stake is even more directly aimed at making the rich richer, whereas Proof of Work only did it with a few extra steps. But at least they'd no longer be burning the planet.

It is 100% whataboutism because those 2 issues have 0 correlations. People that benefits from crypto eat meat as much as people that don't. We can stop mining crypto and stop eating meat at the same time. One has absolutely no bearing on the other.

By your logic, then it's ok to do any fucked up thing, since we can always find something worse to complain about, which I'm sure you can see why, is a completely stupid logic.

The problem is far vaguer and harder to solve than "eat less meat."

I can't even properly frame it beyond "something something globalisation, something something no easy route to monetise leaving the Amazon standing as a carbon sink".

Anyway, you didn't tell us if you have stopped eating meat.

With this analysis, it makes total sense why it would be cheap. Extracting fossil fuels is cheap and will continue to be so for a long time. The true cost of energy from oil, gas and coal is in the emissions, but those are externalities which aren't paid for by the people who use the energy. The only way increased energy demand would lead to innovation in renewables would be if those externalities were somehow made part of the cost of the energy, such as by a heavy carbon tax. But cryptobros are usually the right-libertarian types who wouldn't be in favor of that.