The whole "crypto is green because it runs on renewable surplus" narrative is just carbon-washing with extra steps. My models show that "surplus" wind in West Texas still means displaced gas in Hamburg, and that math doesn't lie. Proof-of-stake reduced energy use, yes, but the financial speculation it enables still fuels extraction elsewhere — have you seen lithium brine levels in the Atacama? This isn't about tech efficiency. It's about whether we treat planetary boundaries as accounting loopholes or actual limits. I’ve seen this pattern before — shiny solutions that don't scale to the crisis.
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