The first panel severely undersells the massive progress that renewables have made over the last couple of decades. And unfortunately, that just plays into the myth the things like wind and solar are weak and impractical, which is one of the main narratives pushed by opponents of clean energy.

I changed it to AI so precisely that no one would ever know it wasn't the original image. Well ok, I actually sloppily pasted it in with a white box, but good enough I say!

And this right here is the reason why I am so fucking cynical and believe that we are in the end times, just not the religious ones

Ever time we make small.progresses, some assholes come by and not only ruin that, but make shit a hundred times worse.

We've know about the first parts of climate change since 1890, I fucking kid you not. And what has humanity done? Every time we try to make it better, we end up not making it enough better as we promised, we actually make it much MUCH worse. Since the Paris accords, things have gone down hill even faster.

We gave billionaires each with their own polluting private planes and their super yachts, we have AI everywhere now even though it will kill fresh water everywhere, we....

Fuck it, I'm done. There is no stopping the stupid of humanity, so we likely will all die together within my lifetime

We are, y our current knowledge, the only planet in the universe with life, let alone intelligent life. We have 8 billion humans, give or take a few, and ee collectively allow a few ten thousand people in total rule and ruin us. It's a fraction of people that cause the vast majority of pollution. It's a tiny sliver of people who are behind all the wars we have.

Seriously. If humanity would just kill those ten thousands dictators, billionaires and what not, we could stop all wars, reverse pollution, start reversing climate change, and setup a socialist system where everyone can live a normal moderate life.

But we won't

Si I'm enjoying the last little bits of life that are left, the last few good days, for as long as they last. I'm hugging my wife close, I tell her I love her more than anything, because I do, and I'm not even telling her what's coming. Why would I do that to her when there is nothing she or I can do about it? I'm just waiting for the inevitable end.

Except that bitcoin replaces an industry that uses magnitudes more energy than it.

Some hope.

Wind and solar reached 30% of EU electricity, higher than fossil power (29%) for the first time on record, and up from 20% just five years prior. By 2025 wind and solar generated more power than all fossil sources in 14 of the 27 EU countries.

Early 2025 was less windy and rainy but sunnier than early 2024. The same weather conditions that caused an annual drop in hydro (-12%) and wind (-2%) boosted solar generation, with renewables providing nearly half of EU power (48%). Wind remained the second largest EU electricity source at 17% of EU power, above gas.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

At this point, whether or not you support such harmful things like AI and crypto aren't differences in opinions, they differences in morality and (especially with AI) empathy. It's one of those things where I just can't be around someone who even takes a "neutral" stance, because it means they don't care about the planet and people around them.

Bitcoin issues an increasingly smaller share of coins to miners, in order to maintain their supposed guarantee of a hard cap of 21 million that will ever be created. This means that the price of Bitcoin has to double every four years just to keep the amount of money paid to miners the same. Bad for viability/security of the network, but good for long term carbon footprint prospects. Although it's probably likely that there's always going to be some kind of semi-scalable and fungible way to make money from running computations, so the failure of any one method isn't going to be a lasting solution to environmental problems.