Is it fair to say that we are at present living through a system wide dedicated attack on the concept of the public interest?

How are you defining public interest?
Who do you feel is attacking it?

Measures, institutions and infrastructure owned by by all of us and dedicated to the public good as opposed to self aggrandizement or the pursuit of profit.

Yes

You mean like the Green New Deal?

More like decent public education from which you have rather obviously been deprived.

Well. A healthy environment, is certainly in the best interest of every lifeform. Yet, there are people who are working hard, to make it worse. Some for profit, realizing their own mortality, and the futility of a livable future Earth. Others are complicit…