"Greens with press passes": Might this endless (and often simplistic) tragic narrative be wearing out the public and wearing thin in newsrooms?

Green Fatigue : Collide-a-Scape

Environmental journalism has, unfairly or not, a perception problem. Bud Ward, writing ten years ago in Harvard’s Nieman Reports, discussed a charge then hurled at environmental journalists: “greens with press passes.”
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Environmental journalists often feel married to the tragic narrative. Pollution, extinction, invasion: The stories are endless, and endlessly the same. Our editors see the pattern and bury us in the back pages; our readers see it and abandon us on the subway or in the dentist’s office.

Might this endless (and often simplistic) tragic narrative be wearing out the public and wearing thin in newsrooms?