Too little too late. Does this describe out efforts at environmental conservation?

Heart-wrenching snapshots of polar bears drowning in the Arctic waters and gaping holes
in the Antarctic ozone layer have left the global population astounded by the impact of
their excessive consumerism and desire for economic progress on the very environment
they live in. While the majority of the world population has turned a deaf ear to the
atrocities of DDT and the destruction caused by CFCs, they have been awakened by the
reverberations of massive damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina strengthened by
global warming. It revealed that no nation, not even the superpower