I understand your point, but no other consumer incentivizes renewable buildout like BTC miners. The BTC community knows miners are increasing the deployment of solar and wind production, but a less discussed aspect is more renewable mining forces fossil fuel mining (that's not stranded methane) out of commission. Once a PV and wind project is built, it's shockingly cheap compared to coal and natural gas and therefore all electricity consumers are incentivized to prioritize the former when available. Bitcoin is putting our shift towards renewable energy constructing into hyperdrive.

TLDR: Miners leave a wake of inexpensive renewable infrastructure while putting coal miners out of business.

Living in a heavily liberal area, the top two Bitcoin critiques I get are: 1. It doesn't provide any value, and 2. It's awful for the environment.

If people thought critically about ESG and were provided quality Bitcoin education they'd realize it's the #1 ESG tool we have.