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Complaining about externalities of PoW cryptocurrencies is like complaining about the fastest function that exists in your code and is magnitudes more efficient than anything else.

Externalities that pollute the ocean, air, rivers and cities are not present in crypto at all in the amounts that other industries and human activities produce.

There will be more people jumping on carnivorous and meat heavy diets than there will be people using electricity powered cryptocurrencies. Keto is trending more than cryptocurrencies.

The amount of destruction that factory farming will inflict on this world and is inflicting will never be reached by cryptocurrencies. There will be no deforestation, no waste mismanagement, no fertilizer drain, nothing.