If you want to drag the MIC into this, then also drag the rest of the world economy. Dollars are not used to only buy guns, just like bitcoin isn't just for drugs...
The entire planet hedges its currency against the USD. Obviously every financial system on Earth needs to be included in that comparison. With their own servers, people, armies etc
And that says nothing of the people using those currencies to execute transactions to buy things such as oil and gas, of course!
Clearly Bitcoin is the solution as the USD is "indirectly" the cause of literally 100% of environmental damage
This is comparable to the Bitcoin nodes and the miners.
BTC as an asset can be used as collateral. It doesn't have to be used just for trade. Maintain your LTV and the daily swings in BTC price are less relevant over the long term, while still be an effective store of wealth.
edit to add: owning bitcoin as a hedge to inflation has not worked. for about a decade of very low inflation, bitcoin was deflating. As soon as inflation started to rise, bitcoin lost 60% of its value. great hedge.
How do you use stock as collateral? Can anyone do that without having to ask for permission?
The 'btc is backed by nothing' argument is old and weak. We're over 10 years into this and it is still 20,000x more valuable than when it started. Try a new trope.
The crypto world ends up re-creating versions of many of these entities, and their power usage should be counted if you're going to put the entirety of the financial industry's power usage on USD.
The energy use to utility ratio of bitcoin sucks now and it's unlikely to get much better with scale.
(And yes, we do use our military to protect the USD: we killed two heads of state primarily because they wanted to price their oil in something other than USD. Had they succeeded that would have killed the petrodollar system.)