Ironically, you never see headlines like "Anti-nuke protesters boycott the power grid" or "Anti-nuke protesters build world's largest solar power plant."
What I hate about democracy is that it rewards complaining rather than problem solving.
What I hate about democracy is that it rewards complaining rather than problem solving.
So tell me, are you the one who will fund the protesters in their construction project? Or provide the engineers and scientists? Would you be willing to pay a tax that funds such groups? Who would be responsible for deciding which groups ought to receive that funding?
It's called protesting because it is complaining. If it were feasible to simply "build [the] world's largest solar plant," then perhaps we'd see that.
For the same reason why folks who object to social program {X} are called hypocrites if they use said social program.
It's a neat argument form. Force someone to pay for your way of doing something and then call your opponents hypocrites for not having the money to do it their way.