[LordDragonfang]

>4,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year

Surprisingly, that's... hardly anything, actually. Considering that annual global emissions measure in the billions, even if a significant number of other rocket companies pop up, as the article predicts, that's still an honestly negligible amount. Pointing the finger at Bitcoin is significantly less ridiculous, considering the paper estimates its footprint at over 30 million tons of CO2.

That article is honestly embarrassingly bad, it links to data that was 4 years old at the time of publication, making it apparent they just took the first google result and stuck it in. I'm all for bashing Musk, but this isn't a good reason.

edit: quick back of the napkin math says convincing a single medium-large company of 1000 employees to go all-WFH, eliminating commutes, would have an equal or greater impact than this hypothetical rocket-a-week. There's a lot of lower-hanging fruit to go after before we worry about rockets, and Bitcoin is increasingly one of those