Those are hardly the only two choices, NIMBY. In fact, the two examples you've given have nothing whatever to do with each other. Tree huggers are protesting the harvesting of old growth trees. It is most emphatically not necessary to harvest old growth trees in order for us to have anything at all that we need. There are so many other ways to provide what we need that don't involved harvesting old growth forests.

Oil has many alternatives as well. The idea that we have to make a choice between having our energy and material needs met, and killing for oil and despoiling the enviornment is false. Nothing could be further from the truth.