Trying to capitulate to the ESG people is the wrong move. Few of them care about the environment. They just want control. We need to double down on a different narrative.

Bitcoin is trying to be a borderless, permissionless, and voluntary financial system. It needs to be defended, but we don't want to do that by partnering with morally questionable regimes, drone striking innocents in third world countries, and financially exploiting said countries. The only viable alternative is proof of work, which acts as a force field.

So if anything, Bitcoin needs to use MORE energy. This way, people around the world have unfettered access to the financial system and can use a money that doesn't require coercion, death, and destruction.

Make the critics and ESG people check their financial privilege. They can afford to be worried about Bitcoin's tenuous connection to climate change. They're not the ones being bombed and exploited. Make everyone watching the debate realize that these people would rather bolster the violent and coercive legacy system than support Bitcoin because proof of work mining uses more energy than they would like. As a matter of fact, they would rather Bitcoin not exist at all!

Flip the narrative on them. Don't give in to their frame.

Why are you yelling?