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>>29952925
Got you senpai.

This is the Orinoco river in Venezuela. It used to be a reservoir of water, billions of trees and undiscovered flora and fauna. Not to mention the indigenous population of the area.

The right picture is how it was left after the Chinese started to mine the area looking for gold.

Precious metal mining destroys the ecosystem, displaces and kills wild fauna, and releases hundreds (if not thousands) of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. Not to mention the energy required, and the pollution released to, transport gold overseas (freighters release way more CO2 into the atmosphere than millions of citizens in their cars.) BTC does not do this.

Now banks. Not only they require hundreds of tons of paper to work, they require a lot of energy to run their servers, to maintain their offices, plus all the energy and fuel requirements of employees and regular people moving to the physical offices.