The Reality of NFTs (coming from a geography student)
Right, so we've all heard of the NFT situation. And we know that production of NFT's incur killing off rainforests and animals within and stuff like that. But there is so much more to it than just chopping down trees.
When our trees are chopped, not only are they not able to absorb CO2 anymore, but they also release all of their stored CO2 within, which can be millions of tonnes.
Our Earth as a whole has a maximum allowance of 2 degrees celsius surplus global temperature increase, because if we go above that we are basically ######### as humanity. We have ALREADY EXCEEDED ONE DEGREES CELSIUS SURPLUS. Along with the existing increase of Carbon dioxide and other warming gasses in the atmosphere, this has a lag time of 0.6 degrees celsius surplus, so whatever we keep producing will also have 0.6 added on afterwards. This only gives us a very tiny wiggle room of 0.4 degrees celsius surplus to sort out crap out.
And clearly companies like BHVR contribute to this issue, so in conclusion, screw them. If you support this heinous act all for a skin and voicelines then you need to evaluate your morals.
No ifs and buts.
Edit: some people ask how rainforests clearing correlate to NFT's. They don't directly, but to fund BHVR, their hqs, their resources etc. they all come from somewhere, and for what? to support some ######### pixels that dont even 'come' from a demonic entity? ######### that. Especially when parts of the crypto industry is focused on ######### like NFT's. The mining of it is harmful as it is
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Very valid points, except the fish part - when I'm talking about sealife, I'm not just talking about fish or things that swim. Keep in mind that much of the vegetation in the sea is edible. Seaweed, as an example, is farmable. Spirulina, Watercress, Arame, sea grapes are all edible plants that can be found in the sea. And that's in the sea. There are also freshwater plants that are edible too.
True I wasn't completely disparaging nuke, just that it isn't the super clean option its often touted as, comparatively though its better on the whole than coal. That said renewables are better on the whole than a lot of other options and if we want to make electricity the way we do its gonna have to be in the renewable field in the end to guarantee any real long term survival for our species on this planet. Energy production as a whole is a look for the least worst kind of scenario.
For that to work we gotta cull at the very least a lot of the unnecessary usage, I'd say NFT's fall well into the unnecessary category.
LMAO, this community
You need to drive cars to live, to go to your work and having all life/society activity.
Cryptocurrencies and NFT are totally useless and bring nothing to the society.
Oh, I did not take that into consideration as most people generally mean fish when they speak of sea life in regards to food. I definitely agree with you, sea plants should become more widespread in diets today. Seaweed is delicious! :)
A lot of cities are taking efforts trying to curb the sheer amount of cars in their roads by eliminating lanes, making entire streets pedestrian only, allowing only even license plates one day, odd license plates the next one, increasing number of public transporation buses, increasing bicycle lanes etc.
And like someone already said, cars are actually necessary (to an extent) for humans, same as plastics, electricity, oil, cement etc (to an extent too, you need plastics but you dont need a plastic bag of cookies where each cookie comes with its own plastic envelope, you dont need to drive your car if you can reach your destination on foot in 10 minutes etc) NTFs on the other hand provide nothing, they are completely useless and have no useful aplication at all, they are just a vehicle for speculators to make a lot of money out of people who want to play the bitcoin game but got in too late.
Its not about living like ascetics but being reasonable and not overconsuming, do you/me/anyone really need to eat beef every day? do we really need 2 cars? do we really need to have the air conditioning at 12 ºC in summer and heating at 28 ºC in winter? and a long list of etc, just think where you are being wasteful and try to reduce it, even if its a little, for example put a sweater in winter instead of setting the temperature super high, if everyone acted like this we could at least slow down the problem instead of going towards it at match speed 3.
Thank you! If you ever get a chance, try sea grapes. They are the funkiest things you can imagine!
I went and looked and I definitely understand why you thought I just meant fish - I apologize. I had terrible wording there. I should have said "overfarming". Derp LOL There are so many things we don't know about the ocean yet and I love that we're constantly discovering new stuff. Cheers! <3