Mining is harmful to the environment?

[Kate]

Electricity a component that we use in our daily life and is required by almost every single human living person in the whole world. Well some human's around the world use electricity to fulfill their daily needs like ironing , charging their appliances etc. But some use it to earn Income by using the Electricity for Mining crypto's like Bitcoin , Litecoin , Dogecoin , Ethereum and many more. Mining isn't a small proccess that just needs 2000 mAh of power like a normal battery of a phone but it needs more than 100,000 mAh per minute which is a lot and also generating Electricity is also hectic and expensive and isn't safe these days because nowadays people don't generate electricity by wind or solar energy but some produce by burning of fossil fuels and also some include burning of petroleum etc.

So my main point of Question is : Do you think Mining is harmful for the environment or is it a way to kill the earth ?

My answer yes. But it can be avoided by setting up those mining rigs in places where energy is produced in natural ways so it doesn't harm the environment around us.

[David]

I agree the environmental impact is devastating - but this is a large part of a coin's value. It's one of the most common ways I see crypto discommended in mainstream media.

Hopefully a global transition towards cleaner energy sources will reduce these effects.

[skywallkee]

This post already exists and I think that it should be merged with the other one. 

And as I stated in there, it is absurd to say that it affects enviroment just because the electricity is generated anyway, it's just a matter of if we use it or not, because it's anyway gone.

 

[williamshennie9]

Yip, I also created a post like this back in my early days on Stake