[rfd4sgmk8u]

You can think that, but you are looking at the wrong side of the equation. The path down this thought process is being a bully -- "I don't want you to use electricity in that way". That is just your preference. Let the miners use power how they like, cleanly. Issue as many carbon taxes as you like to the producers if you feel it needs a finger on the scale. The miners don't tell you to stop wasting power on xmas trees.

Using energy is fine. Producing unclean energy is immoral. So is driving an internal combustion vehicle. We must get our power generation efficient and clean as possible.

[timeon]

> We must get our power generation efficient and clean as possible.

The thing is that, even if, it is not going to happen soon. And Energy for Bitcoin is out of proportion if you compare it with anything you have mentioned. Bitcoin wants to replace something with less efficient way. Bitcoin is backward thinking.

[rfd4sgmk8u]

Not understanding Bitcoin is backward thinking. Bitcoin is an incentive to move to clean power.

You can't stop it, you can't stop people mining it, you can't stop people using it. Complaining about the energy is like complaining about the moon. Nothing you say or do can make it go away. So get people to generate it cleanly.