Any idea to sell crypto art might sound fun, and donating the money to someone in need sounds like doing a good thing, but the hidden cost is the ecological violence that happens in the production of the energy needed to do even one ETH transaction.
Great article on this: https://memoakten.medium.com/the-unreasonable-ecological-cost-of-cryptoart-2221d3eb2053
The footprint of a single transaction relating to a NFT on SuperRare averaged across all 80000 transactions (including minting, bidding, sales, transfers etc) is 76 kWh, with emissions of 47 KgCO2 (details in Part 2).
A single NFT can involve dozens of transactions, and potentially more. These include minting, bidding, cancelling, sales and transfer of ownership.
This generally pushes the footprint of a single NFT into hundreds of kWh, and hundreds of KgCO2 emissions, and often even more.
In fact, of the ~18000 CryptoArt NFTs that I analyzed, the average NFT has a footprint of around 340 kWh and 211 KgCO2 (details in Part 2).
This single NFT’s footprint is equivalent to a EU resident’s total electric power consumption for more than a month, with emissions equivalent to driving for 1000Km, or flying for 2 hours.
Truly, the power of crypto is the freedom to drive the planet into an even worse climate crisis with no fear of any government being able to regulate it even if they tried.