I honestly don't know why crypto and energy is now talk of the town, we all know that mining of coin consumes energy and is not only mining of coin that consumes energy. Now that elon musk is talking about btc consuming alot of energy is like starting a war. We should all know that something like this might come up sometime, we just have to be prepared when next something like this comes up.
Did you live in a bubble? Besides Corona, the most discussed topic worldwide is certainly climate change and the possibilities to stop or at least limit it. That is why many countries have decided to soon no longer allow gasoline engines and switch to electric energy forms or, for example, to phase out coal energy. It was foreseeable that crypto with its partly horrendous energy consumption will come into focus sooner or later.