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While Bitcoin Energy Concerns Grow, Nobody Discusses the Carbon and Military Violence Backing US Dollars This week a great number of bitcoin supporters and skeptics have been arguing over whether or not bitcoin mining is harmful to the global environment. However, crypto supporters have been saying that concerns over the Bitcoin network’s energy supply are absurd, in contrast to the carbon used and the military violence that backs a number of fiat currencies including the U.S. dollar. One could even go as far as to say that the American dollar alone has left boot prints on large groups of humans over the years and desecrated entire countries. ....
● Road transport, aircraft and ship traffic and production of means of transport, ● industrial agriculture, ● Storage and distribution of data. Any real green transformation of society to stop greenhouse gas emissions must therefore start by looking critically at these sectors and cutting back on production, transport, and waste. But on the contrary, the EU Commission writes in their presentation of the Green Deal: Energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemicals and cement are indispensable to Europe’s economy because they supply several key value chains.” Quote from Ursula von der Leyen’s presentation of the EU Commission’s Green Deal. The industry itself has also been involved in writing recommendations through a special think tank with industry representatives. ....