Nobody cares about energy use.

People point to an oversized vehicle but will defend their oversized TV with their lives. Whilst rationally speaking there are very few "monster truck" vehicles whilst almost everybody has such a TV. The "do good" factor of banning/taxing the TV would be infinitely more impactful.

People hate miners, not for their energy use, instead because they drive up the price of high-end GPUs. High-end GPUs, you know, which gamers intended to use to do high-energy use gaming.

Both cases (insanely large TVs and high-end gaming) would be defended by them delivering value or purpose.

Well, guess what, the planet doesn't fucking care. There's no such thing. And if anything, neither use cases are in the realm of life support systems.