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# Impact of blockchain

Key scientists across the world agree that we have 11 years left before we reach a critical point of no return.\
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And the use of blockchain technology worsens the climate crisis:

* Ethereum consumes the same amount of energy as the entire country of Turkey.
* By August 2022, crypto-assets had used more electricity than Argentina - a nation of 46 million people.


* Each bitcoin transaction creates as much e-waste as throwing out two iPhone 12s.

#### The impact of blockchain can be broken into the following ways:

#### **1) Electronic Waste**

**2) Threat to major adoption**

**3) Non renewable energy**\
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**4) Greenhouse gas emissions**