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Nepal Floods, Climate Change, Doomscrolling: How Do We Keep Going?
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- Sep 1, 2026
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Summary
On this episode of Messy Liberation, hosts Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown get real about climate grief, doomscrolling, and the nihilism that creeps in when disaster feels endless, sparked by the catastrophic Nepal glacier flood and reports of billionaires building bunkers to escape the mess they helped create. Becky and Taina dig into the difference between staying informed and staying trapped in trauma, why our brains keep replaying footage that hurts us, and how community, agency, and joy become acts of resistance when the world feels like it's on fire. They close with a tribute to Dolly Parton and what her life proves about choosing love over hate. In This Episode, We Get Into: • Why the Nepal glacier flood hit so hard, and the "disaster movie" desensitization that makes real catastrophe feel unreal • Billionaires building underground bunkers (complete with jails) instead of fixing the climate crisis they're profiting from • The nihilism spiral: "what's the point" thinking and how it shows up differently before and after having kids • The real difference between being informed and being engaged, and where that line gets crossed into doomscrolling • Why our brains compulsively replay traumatic footage, and what that has to do with control and anxiety • Survivor's guilt vs. privilege guilt, and how proximity to suffering (without living it) shapes our response • The "crazy-making" feeling of watching people deny climate change in real time, and why that's a form of gaslighting • Divesting from harmful systems vs. reducing our reliance on them, and what to do with the time and energy that frees up • Surrender vs. submission: how accepting what you can't control can actually restore a sense of agency • Why joy and grief can coexist, and why withholding joy doesn't pro…