One of the many, many indicators that the conservative “media” system is more purely political propaganda and disinformation machine than it is journalistic endeavors is the fact that it often fails to offer fact-based criticisms of its opposition when the opportunity arrives.
Case in point is a recent move by two wildlife conservation organizations to embrace NFTs as a digital version of the classic “adopt a zebra” type fundraising campaigns. Beyond the obvious ponzi scheme aspects of NFTs, and more because of the environmental impacts of blockchains and NFTs as we’ve discussed before, the move has garnered plenty of backlash, like Kate Aronoff’s great New Republic piece asking Why the Hell Is the World Wildlife Fund Selling Animal NFTs?, for example.
From the noted and long-time liberal prestige New Republic, Aronoff offers a criticism of the larger commodification of nature approach, but the even more cutting response would be to simply point to recent research showing that NFTs can be expected to kill people.
Flagged by Skeptical Science, instead of some hypothetical legitimate conservative media outlet that operates in reality instead of in the realm of alternative facts, the study explains that based on how much energy creating NFTs requires on the blockchain: “the mining devices verifying NFT sales in one month in 2021 would be responsible for…
