Letters to the Editor
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No magic bullet.
You can't turn it off or stop caring without compromising your integrity. That's the ultimate, horrible truth: that there's no solution. That isn't the same as saying that there's no hope. Hope will endure so long as integrity is maintained.
Only when you accept that after your death things may get much worse - that humanity could be responsible for the death of everything on Earth, which in turn will end its days as a lifeless husk waiting to be immolated in the star death of our sun - can you let go of your feeling of personal responsibility. You are only responsible for maintaining your integrity: to seek the truth with eyes unclouded by hate. True courage is to embark on a doomed endeavor - and your integrity demands it.
Catharsis is a rare and precious gift, and is usually (just as are our minds) an illusion. Why should it be any different with the fate of the world? If you don't believe in a god who is there to tell you everything is OK, you will nonetheless feel the need for it because you are human - that's the function our parents usually fulfill. You will only find the comfort that your integrity permits you to find - and perhaps you should ask why you are searching for comfort in the first place.