30 years ago, the currently unfolding #ecological disaster was faced, and then buried.

"In 1990 Bob Hawke announced his government wanted the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by the year 2005."

The alt-right Fake-News machine avant la lettre:

" from the late 1980s industry groups, free market advocates [the Murdoch media] and climate contrarians got to work to reframe the issue from the science to the economics.

By 1996 much of the damage was done. The advent of John Howard’s government ensured there would be no more genuine progress."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/aug/06/how-australians-were-ready-to-act-on-climate-science-25-years-ago-and-what-happened-next?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0FpdHmA5y4yQr9GQG5LwSq4sK9Mq7Dlm77gvpUvrm64ndHW_NWLr1MjnA