Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory

Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by bamboozled on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:26PM (#27441078)

What about fracking for gas? Seems pretty novel to me? Why not focus on that. Fracking sites leak huge amounts of methane into the atmosphere, destroy water tables why focus on a crypto currency that some people actually use?

What about mass international air travel? There are lots of novel things happening, why focus on bitcoin?

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Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by AlexandrB on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:35PM (#27441191)

Did I say I supported fracking?

Besides, I don't work in the fracking industry, I work in the software industry. And it's painful to see my industry contributing to the problem in such a thoughtless way. Maybe if this was Fracking News and people were bashing on bitcoin you'd have a point.

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Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by bamboozled on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:45PM (#27441322)

Even if what you're saying is true, how do you supposed we "ban" cryptos or stop them? As a person who works on software, you'd have to realize how non-trivial it would be to stop.

What about banning people from going for a drive just for fun, or on a holiday via aircraft ?

It's a lot easier for governments to ban coal fire power stations and fracking replacing them with renewables and hydrogen storage.

This is actually something we can control and do without taking over people's freedoms.

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