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While Bitcoin bulls will probably never have it so good as they have in 2017, we wonder whether many of them have stopped to think about the environmental downside of this roaring bull market. After all, back in the dot.com boom, people had ideas about potential internet businesses, issued pieces of paper representing ownership and watched their prices go parabolic parabolic. All it took was a Powerpoint presentation,...

While Bitcoin bulls will probably never have it so good as they have in 2017, we wonder whether many of them have stopped to think about the environmental downside of this roaring bull market. After all, back in the dot.com boom, people had ideas about potential internet businesses, issued pieces of paper representing ownership and watched their prices go parabolic parabolic. All it took was a Powerpoint presentation, some computer programming expertise and a “research” report,...

Depending on who’s talking, the climate change agreement reached at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference in mid-December is either a watershed moment in environmental history or just another toothless framework. It’s certainly true that the political will of current and future national governments will play a large role in how much greenhouse gas emissions fall in the next two decades – and how much the global temperature rises as a result. Still, Credit Suisse says the deal’s very existence...