It's easy to be pessimistic but do you remember CFCs[0]? I don't have time to re-read the article but my recollection of the timeline of events goes somewhat like this:
1. CFCs invented
2. CFCs are in high use
3. Thesis: It's bad for the environment; ozone layer is depleting
4. Antithesis: It's problematic for some businesses to give these up
5. Synthesis: Global effort to stop using them and find replacements
6. Ozone layer is slowly getting better
On one hand, I'm hopeful something similar could happen again.
On the other, the aforementioned events happened in a pre-post-truth world so it might not. You might argue that would be natural selection at work.