Environment Going Under, Downunder?

For almost 50 years, the Australian business, media and political classes have shown zero interest in their county's unique flora and fauna (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/20/the-dire-state-of-the-environment-report-is-a-major-challenge-for-labor-and-an-opportunity). The recent State of the Environment Report, however, makes it clear that the pace of environmental deterioration greatly accelerated over the last 5 years. It's getting hard to ignore the facts that:- a) more than 200 additional animal and plant species have joined a verge of extinction list; b) 19 ecosystems show signs of imminent collapse; c) enormous areas of native forest have been bulldozed; d) vast Southern kelp forests have disappeared (along with their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) and e) the Great Barrier Reef is less 'great', due to damage by extensive heat-related bleaching events. This is not to mention the recent wide-spread impacts of wildfires and flooding! Hopefully, minds will start to be focused. To rephrase an adage, 'It's not the economy: It's the environment, stupid! This is a message that needs to be taken on by all countries. Economies can recover. The environment may become too trashed to regenerate.