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.

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/

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.