any advice for avoiding complete climate doomerism?

You might want to check out the anthropologist Anna Tsing. Her most famous book is The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, which is all about looking to the ruins and seeing what still grows, through the lens of a specific mushroom. She also co-edited a book Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene which is a bunch of entries on exactly this topic.

Also, I'm not sure if it's entirely related to your concern, but this short video by Conner Habib made me think some interesting things about the concept of "nature".

And honestly, if you're able, actually getting out into nature and reading about it (I can give some recs if you're interested) kind of helps me, in a somewhat paradoxical way. Idk why. Maybe the contrast between flitting through screeching headlines about what we're doing to the natural world vs the calmness of stalwart trees in a forest soothes in a way, or something...

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