If you were against lung cancer, and writing about the issues caused by scented candles emitting smoke and that smoke corrupting lungs - it would be hard to take you seriously or accept your criticism as valid. It's probably true that scented candles are infinitesimal contributors to lung cancer, but it's just silly to think of them that way.

Likewise, yes, language models use energy, but objectively, it's not that much energy and the sources for the energy are sometimes green and always efficient (i.e. Coming from the grid and not by burning jet fuel).

You can't really solve the problem of lung cancer by addressing scented candles. Reducing energy used by language models likewise won't have an effect.