“I think this is a weak argument. It is like saying: If we don’t make it – weapons, drugs, child pornography, crypto mining, whatever – somebody else will, so we might as well do it,” Overland said. “Norway uses this argument a lot about its oil, claiming that it is cleaner than other oil and that it is better if oil is produced by a democracy than authoritarian countries. From a climate perspective, this argument makes little sense.”
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/02/09/crypto-advocates-push-back-on-swedens-call-for-eu-mining-ban/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines