Because of the harms of environmental change, there should be pressure placed to avoid damaging ways to generate that energy.

When people complain about the amount of energy being used, they are making the judgement on the benefits. This is subjective and people do not agree on the benefits. The argument you shouldn't do this because of the energy consumed is implicitly saying "My judgement on the worth of this supercedes yours"

Pretty soon it devolves into criticizing the energy use of things you just don't like.

A society has to accept that people have different opinions on things. That includes what it is worth using energy for.

Producing clean energy is something everyone should be able to get behind. There is a solid consensus that it would make a better world.