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by kbody 2436 days ago
Quite arguable numbers that seem to be used to drive traffic to this site rather than do a proper scientific report like done by the University of Cambridge https://cbeci.org/

The CO2 emissions heavily depend on the actual use of renewable which nobody can be sure about. In some cases like bitcoin mining using fuel that would otherwise cause CO2 emissions, you actual have a net gain. (See companies like https://www.upstreamdata.ca/)

So even by those arguable arguable CO2 emissions it's actually less than 0.1% of the world's total.

I wish people that have knee-jerk reactions about this, actual think about the big picture and what actually causes high CO2 emissions and offer way fewer benefits than censorship-resistant money.

The luxury fashion industry for example for a long time has had a big negative effect, from drying up whole lakes, to child labor to effectively destroying villages for what... anyhow.