Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (2018)
I find it remarkable how people always criticize bitcoin for environmental damage but when people are sending rockets to the orbit that's ok! One technology is apparently bad & the other good. Both damage the environment. What's the framework to judge this?<p>"The rocket held 440 tons of jet fuel, which has a high carbon content, meaning it releases a lot of carbon dioxide into the air when burned. If SpaceX meets its target of launching a rocket every two weeks, then the company will be releasing roughly 4,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, Whittaker calculated."<p>Source: <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/fr/content/space-x-bad-for-the-environment/#:~:text=The%20astrophysicist%20Ian%20Whittaker%20wrote,into%20the%20air%20when%20burned" rel="nofollow">https://www.globalcitizen.org/fr/content/space-x-bad-for-the...</a>.