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How to debunk the Bitcoin Energy Consumption drama

How to debunk something that is real?
Is Bitcoin mining consuming energy? Yes, it does!
Can we approximate how much energy does it? Yes, pretty simple the number is there, just take the hashrate and see how much kwh are required for it based on the standard miner!
Can bitcoin energy consumption spike 3 times from what is now? Yeah, bitcoin just needs to reach ~120k before the having!

Rather than focusing on trying to minimize the obvious the community should look at the most important thing, that is stated in the article also:

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It is undeniable that Bitcoin consumes a large amount of energy, which, in the short-term, will add some carbon to the atmosphere.
Energy is not “wasted,” it is used to power the most secure blockchain on Earth, allowing for second- and third-layer innovations that expand financial access for billions of people. .

Bitcoin will consume as much energy as the block reward will allow it to, if it drops to 100$ the consumption will drop 100 times too, the same amount of transactions could be processed at but at the same time it will be as secure as the shitcoin on the 40th page on coinmarketcap. If one BTC reaches 1 million before the halving and assuming there is enough mining gear in the world you will see consumption go up by 20x from those 100ThW but at the same team, it will be 20 times more secure against any attack.

Doge is not burning less energy because of god knows what magic trick, is burning less because BTC mining reward was $46,948,254.22 USD compared to $7,132,078.25 USD and that's all.
miners have only one cost cooling and electricity, and both are capped by this reward, if doge goes to 1 million dogecoin will burn also more energy than this planet could produce. Ethereum hashrate has doubled from the start of the year, and I'm pretty sure that didn't occur without the doubling of energy consumption.

Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 06:15:06 AM

Plus, we already know that extrapolations are wrong:

Actually, the extrapolation works here, if the reward double so does the miner revenue so grows the amount of energy they can pay for mining.
Double the price, double the income with a bit of ignoring ROI, and wages and maintenance double the amounts of kwh burned.