can we morally justify the ecological cost of shitty NFT artwork on Ethereum's current PoW systems?
It would be very interesting to see the carbon foot comparison include two or three cities, add in Washing DC, Wu Han China, and London England, how much of a foot print would Ethereums NFT's have then? I use those cities as an example due to the word usage in your question.
Is all this talk about the carbon footprint of digital media/currency nothing more than another attempt to control the narrative? to divide and conquer people, to remove from people a common sense issue and to tax the middle class and below people on things and activities they consider fun. Where are the Carbon foot prints of all Yachts comparisons? No one talks about the cost of the rich peoples fun and games, just the middle class and below.
I was having that very same convo with Matt in private, it's all about controlling the narrative.
We see a lot of Carbon Foot Print stuff, so why no Carbon Foot Print from Wealthy Activities, like Yachting, or Polo, or the carbon foot print of Privately Owned Jets. It is all about telling people what we, as normal people, are doing to cause global climate change, not what the wealthy are doing to do it because they are important.