@Brendanjones This is an ignorant and frankly, privileged, wealthy North American take. Just because you personally have no use for it, you assume it has no value to humanity?
Wait until you have a Cypress, Argentina, or Venezuela situation. Or are unbanked in Malaysia.
If it had no value it would be long dead. Could it be better? Sure. Everything useful uses energy though.
Shit like this is why you can't have meaningful conversations about it.