Bitcoin holders fire back against the New York Times - which one is really hurting the environment

On April 9th The New York Times published the piece The real world cost of the digital race for bitcoin which many considered a hit piece. The summary of the article is that bitcoin mining uses mostly fossil fuels and is horrible for the environment.

Bitcoin Maxis decided they were not going to take this accusations sitting down and formed a plan to fight fire with fire, they started looking into how much environmental damage the New York Times itself actually does.

I must warn you that the images you are about to see are gruesome and not for the faint of heart.

This tweet by WalkerAmerica seems to be what started the push back against the New York Times.

link to tweet and article mentioned

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More photos have emerged of the devastating effect The New York Times news paper printing has had on the environment.

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hash tag StopThePresses has been adopted as the battle cry to try and stop The New York Times from killing innocent trees.

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The Skull of Sulzberger is a great representation of what The New York Times is doing do the environment, also see the Tree Slaughterhouses.

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You can also read the article by Walker V - The New York Times is Murdering Millions of Trees

Just how many trees are murdered because of the reckless printing of the New York Times?

Let’s find out…A pine tree that measures 45 feet long & 8-inch diameter produces 10,000 sheets of paper. But the average sheet of paper is 8.5” x 11” & each NYT wastepaper is 12" x 22" when unfolded.

So, conservatively, let’s say each NYT wastepaper page is two pieces of normal paper

On September 14th, 1987, the New York Times wastepaper weighed 12 pounds & had 1,612 pages.

That means just over three NYT newspapers killed one tree.

Extrapolating to the present day, the New York Times kills 59 MILLION trees per year.