The title is clickbaity, but it is fact. I do not cater to the frame of the enemies of mankind. I will not so much as dignify their claims or sophistry with rebuttals.

Oh, and in case someone has not already mentioned it, there is a bug that makes the mining difficulty adjust based on hashrate for 2015 blocks, not 2016 (I forget if first or last that is dropped), and there are some theoretical attacks related to this that are interesting to read about.

https://heaviside.substack.com/p/bitcoin-mining-wastes-energy-but