It's almost like people want things built that they directly benefit from.
What if the cornfield owners got paid market rates for the power generated when that land is given over to solar? This should be (and ChatGPT agrees) much more profitable given that it is vastly more energy efficient.
Realistically the solution to NIMBYism is to pay the neighbours, but that's not really practical.
NIMBYism isn't rational, it's a manifestation of fear of change, even if they past state of affairs was worse than the future one. I live in a city where the anti-datacentre campaign isn't about some pleasant locale, but a disused toxic industrial land in a steel-mill complex over half a km away from any actual homes.
The corn field is a known quantity.
If we pay each farmer to generate solar (and maybe also stop paying them to grow corn beyond what's actually economically viable), why would they care what the next farm over is doing? I thought we were talking about places where people live too far apart for "backyards".
Not everyone is a software developer.