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We planners have taken to calling this phenomenon gizmo green: the obsession with “sustainable" products that often have a statistically insignificant impact on the carbon footprint when compared to our location. And, as already suggested, our location's greatest impact on our carbon footprint comes from how much it makes us drive.

Walkable City

Jeff Speck

The number of users being funneled into drug treatment in Portugal, for instance, has sharply fallen, going from a peak of 1,150 in 2015 to 352 in 2021, the most recent year available.

Once Hailed for Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal Is Now Having Doubts

Anthony Faiola and Catarina Fernandes Martins

Ethereum uses 113 terawatt-hours per year—as much power as the Netherlands, according to Digiconomist. A single Ethereum transaction can consume as much power as an average US household uses in more than a week. Bitcoin’s energy consumption is even worse.

Why Ethereum Is Switching to Proof of Stake and How It Will Work

technologyreview.com

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