Oh come on. We should be charitable in our discussions. The comment clearly mentions that there are some useful applications, which cover the censorship and collapsing government use-cases. The important thing to recognize is that the large majority of people don't have these use-cases. This means that BTC becomes a niche system rather than supplanting world banking.

It isn't my energy being spent, but it is CO2 that harms our planet. Until we have zero-emissions energy I think it is reasonable to criticize systems as energy-inefficient.