Once they see how mining balances grids...
Once they see how mining incentivizes renewables and nuclear...
Once they see how mining replaces fossil-powered heating...
Once they see how bitcoin substitutes for more carbon-intensive equities...

Once they see how bitcoin substitutes for bank deposits, multiples of which are lent for fossil development...
Once they see how bitcoin digitizes environmentally disastrous gold...
Once they see how bitcoin mining is a mere rounding error in the global emissions picture...

Once they see that bitcoin miners are simple resistance heaters, just as efficient but doing double duty, securing an immutable, decentralized ledger...
Once they see that bitcoin mining just saved the Texas during a winter storm...

Once they see that bitcoin mining creates jobs and spurs innovation...
Once they see that bitcoin mining is the best tool we have for mitigating venting methane in landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, on oilfields, on farms, around the world...

Once they see that bitcoin is a fundamental innovation, a platform for human ingenuity, a tool...
Once they see we could even distill water with bitcoin miners...
Once they see we could subsidize carbon capture with bitcoin mining...
Once they see this is only the beginning...

Once they see that AI will pose all of the same questions for carbon accounting as bitcoin mining...
Once they see that bitcoin itself is a critical tool to achieve what they say they want--an inclusive, fair, transparent, predictable, financial system...

Once they see bitcoin keys are just information, that bitcoin's code is just speech...
Once they see that bitcoin is freedom, that it's a major advance of human rights...
Once they see that our current monetary system distorts incentives, promotes short-termism, consumption...

Once they see that bitcoin fixes this, that it fixes many forms of human corruption, human domination and exploitation through the manipulation of money, manipulation of ledgers, that it curbs the monetary self-dealing that litters human history...

Once they see that the pursuit of happiness includes the right to one's own vision of the good...
Once they see that disagreements about what's a worthy use of electrical current should not, as a rule, be settled by laws, but markets...

Once they see that bitcoin is voluntary, and that bitcoin mining asks not for special treatment, but precisely to be treated like all other users of electricity...
Once they see that bitcoin is more than happy to stand in the market unaided, even strongly opposed by incumbents...

Once they see...