Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
We were having a conversation, but after I dropped this with some sauce

you proceeded to post (checks) 10 times on this thread and have responded to nearly everyone but me.

I feel blanked, but I am still hungry for your sources that shows NFT's have a benign carbon footprint.
This issue is really stressing me out.
I want to change my mind.
I want to be convinced there is nothing to worry about.
Please share your data.
Truth be told you will find very little on data. That article from the Verge made this point by saying the following:
When someone makes, buys, or sells an NFT using Ethereum, they’re responsible for some of the emissions generated by those miners. What’s still up for debate is whether NFTs are significantly increasing emissions from Ethereum or if they’re just taking on responsibility for emissions that would have been generated by miners anyway. Without NFTs, miners would still be plugging away at puzzles and polluting. And NFTs are still a relatively small portion of all Ethereum transactions.

Figuring out the culpability of NFTs is a little like calculating your share of emissions from a commercial plane flight, according to Joseph Pallant, founder of the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation. If you’re on the plane, you’re obviously responsible for a portion of its emissions. But if you hadn’t bought the ticket, the plane probably would have taken off with other passengers and polluted the same amount anyway.
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However as stated in my previous claim if you are worried about this I would not be. The insignificant impact of NFT will be reduced by several factors as most NFTs are on ETH. ETH is currently Proof of work and intensive in it's use. However, later this year it will move to proof of stake and be far more environmentally friendly.