This is the fresh add-on to the bitcoin is bad narrative: now we have the association with terrorism, money laundering, tax evasion, capital flight, ponzi scheme (missed anything?) and the new kids on the block climate change and CO2 emissions.
You can add to all this the lack of chips for the car industry, smartphones and computers because the crypto mining industry is causing shortages in the market - you can read more
here.
I have always thought that when there is the need to find evidence to make a case against anything, these evidence will always be found and put together.
Good then that companies like Argo will move towards a greener footprint to avoid further criticism.
If most of the media is controlled by 5 or 6 world corporations, then the truth is what they present to the public, not what should be supported by facts and research. If you hear or read something more than once in your local media today, you will assume that it is true news like most people who do not question their truth.
I think we have already started to move away from the agenda that mining and BTC transactions cause environmental destruction, but we are slowly moving in the direction of convincing people that BTC should be stopped because it will consume so much energy that half the world will remain in the dark.
If you follow the news that covers this topic, then you must have noticed that they very skillfully manipulate one thing - and that is that they often change the country they compare to the total energy consumption used by BTC - one day it is Argentina, the second day Ireland and the third day they combine several countries such as New Zealand and Belgium. The goal, of course, is to try to create a bad image in as many countries as possible, because everyone's mouths are full of environmental protection and no one wants to give up the modern way of life - and they want to portray Bitcoin as something that affects these things.