If I was like Bill Gates or something, I think I would have a different attitude. Only when information can actually inform my decisions does it become meaningful. No matter what I hear about global deforestation, I'm not going to do anything about it. So why even hear it in the first place? It just serves to pollute my mind and make me feel bad.
I think a lot of people feel that way, and it's not an entirely irrational response.
Perhaps the best solution is to choose just one or two problems to worry about and try to help solve. Let other people worry about the others.
The "Think Globally, Acr Locally" mantra suggest it's easier to influence your local community and government, rather than a global, hard to wrap your head around, abstract issue.
Some people may still decide that working on global deforestation is the most important thing to do.
Hiding the information away only helps the exploiters to win decisively.
Yeah the data is somewhat sensationalist, but still it is not false data and many people who would otherwise not bat an eye can sometimes be impacted into change by sensationalist or shocking presentation of data.