Art NFTs Aren’t Guilty for the Real Environmental Impact of Cryptocurrency

Joanie Lemercier, a French artist whose work is deeply tied to climate activism, has been working on steadily decreasing his carbon footprint by 10 percent each year. In an effort to lessen his reliance on international festivals and the planes that inevitably took him to them, he recently began to explore NFTs — non-fungible tokens based on blockchain technology — as a way to exhibit and sell art while staying at home. 
But he was concerned, as many artists are, with the enviro