Why do people keep posting this? I have no idea where this meme came from. It's not even 1% of global energy consumption. Cryptocurrencies in general are absolutely not environmental disasters. I agree, bitcoin is a useless coin but it's not even close to having any real environmental impact.

Investment in environmental disasters? I'd suggest the developed world stop trading with China but we all know people can't live without cheap consumer products, including the computers we're using to post our opinions. How about we drop the USD instead? It's literally backed by petroleum and the US military. Hard to think of anything with a bigger environmental impact. It should be easy, right? Just quote petroleum prices in cryptocurrency. Simple... The hard part is surving the inevitable US invasion and destruction of your country.