Cobalt mining for batteries?
Energy consumption for processed metals?
Oil refining from rocketry (largely used by military in practice scenarios)
This list goes on. It seems crypto is the only technology evaluated in relation to the whole environment. For all the others we shrug and ignore externalities.
It's not like those 56 are free either, we could use that energy to run more important things instead that crypto is taking away from.
I don't want money to be separated from the state, and especially not at a cost.
One man's crypto-anarchocapitalist utopia is another man's dystopian capitalist nightmare that we sacrificed our environment for.
The utopia would be post-money imo and moving money away from the state would make that harder to achieve.
Not to mention that even with renewables, energy usage would be still a concern. Renewables will still have issues around distribution, power peaks, energy storage, price, and crypto wouldn't be helping any of them. A discussion of how would crypto affect the rest of the people compared to the benefit it brings would still be relevant.