This is how I compartmentalise the awful situations across the world, no matter how bad things get they were much worse in the past and we still managed to endu

This is how I compartmentalise the awful situations across the world, no matter how bad things get they were much worse in the past and we still managed to endure. I include a nuclear exchange with Russia and extreme climate change in this category because apparently humanity got down to as low as around 40 families at one point in our history which is about as close to extinction as you can get and still come back. The other side of this is that even though there was more bad things happening in the world in the past, the average person would have known about far fewer of them by virtue of lack of access to information. I don't feel shame in going days or even weeks ignoring the news sometimes because humans aren't built to mentally function with a 24 hour news cycle pumping a firehose of the world's doom and gloom into our heads, let alone psychologically manipulating us into scrolling past ads all day.