
Ethereum Energy Numbers are in! Moral calculations and web 3 critiques with Kyle McDonald
Interdependence
Is There a Global Omissions Crisis?
The gaming globe is maybe four to five times more energy hungry than the etheream network at its currenta measure. The entire history of everyone who's ever played mind craft could be potentially responsible for like 600 thousand tons of c o two a. So we're talking about 200 times as many people, but maybe only like five % as many omissions a. Even if there's some vague comparison, like same order of magnitude similarity between the omissions or the energy usage of the two, we'retalking about many orders of magnitude difference and who's getting value out of it? Rt: "I think in some ways this comes back to a deeper question, which is, like,
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