According to the leading ecologist of El Salvador, Ricardo Navarro, building the ‘Bitcoin City’ of President Nayib Bukele next to a volcano is a pending environmental disaster.
For that matter, the ecologist claims that placing the bitcoin city so close to a volcano is fruitless and without any real benefits.
Moreover, Navarro also presented a detailed explanation where he points out the flaws of the project.
In particular, the ecologist blasts ‘Bitcoin City’ by presenting numbers that show that the cost of maintenance won’t differ in regard to the standard energy sources, such as fuel.
Ricardo Navarro is one of the more vocal critics of El Salvador’s bitcoin renaissance. As such, he almost never fails to challenge President Bukele and his bitcoin-oriented state policy.
Up to such extent, that the ecologist believes that the President doesn’t really understand how crypto works. And that mining bitcoin by using volcano power is possible, but definitely not 100% efficient.
Ricardo Navarro even states that the bitcoin situation in En Salvador may ‘invite’ drug lords to the country. And one major reason for that is that the bitcoin legal tender was somewhat forcibly ‘pushed’ without any debate whatsoever.
Considering that Ricardo Navarro is head of CESTA (Salvadorian Center for Appropriate Technology), calling ‘Bitcoin City’ a pending environmental disaster is completely understandable.
Especially since his organization is pro-environmental, and serves to find viable and ‘green’ technological solutions.
It remains to see whether President Nayib Bukele will address these accusations of the leading ecologist in the country.
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