Barring a major technological breakthrough, all current means of energy generation have significant environmental drawbacks. Even among the "renewable" energy generation there's problems: hydroelectric destroys river ecosystems, nuclear produces radioactive waste, solar and battery systems require mined materials (and become toxic waste at the end of their lifecycles), wind turbines kill hundreds of thousands of birds and bats annually, etc. Meanwhile rather than solving environmental and climate problems at their sources, we're relying more heavily on powered solutions, from electric vehicles to de-carbonization systems, while also needing to use more electricity to combat the ill-effects of climate change (e.g. more air conditioning in the face of warming summers). If we're gonna start turning the boat around on environmental issues we need to dramatically reduce our energy consumption as a society. Instead we're mining bitcoin and barrelling headfirst into an AI "revolution"...