People are the problem themselves. The world has been the hottest this year while bitcoin miners are producing less carbon dioxide than what critics depicted about bitcoin in comparison with the total gases release to the environment that can cause global warming from tiger human activities. The reason the world is getting warmer day after day is not because of bitcoin mining but because of how the world are generating electricity, industrial chemicals released to the environment, deforestation and transport emissions of the gasses that can cause global warming.
Well, tell that to the industrialists that are profiting off the destruction of the environment, that's probably the only way that they can make money and they don't have any kind of plans to ever go sustainable despite them telling you that they'll do it eventually. I feel like a lot of media outlets have stopped blaming bitcoin mining though, I haven't seen a lot of big news stories in a while about the climate change and the global warming being attributed to the mining operations. Also we can't really all directly challenge these big polluters of the environment because doing so would disrupt global trade and since there's a lot of products that are reproduced in those countries, the price of goods will definitely be skyrocketing, of course I'm talking about China.