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Re:The case against crisis-mongering by dheera on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:55AM (#28181638)
> Humans are built to survive adversity.

No, we aren't. Adversity from other humans, but not adversity from nature.

Natural disasters routinely kill huge numbers of people, because we don't know how to deal with them.

Re:The case against crisis-mongering by simonh on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:49PM (#28182085)
Not all adversities are immediately lethal, but many will kill you eventually if you don't adapt.

Anyway It's not necessarily the surviving the immediate disaster that's evolutionarily selected for. No adaptation is going to make a human volcano or tsunami proof. It's the survivors piecing a viable way of life back together in the aftermath that matters.

Re:The case against crisis-mongering by raspasov on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:05PM (#28181712)
Apart from obvious disasters, nature has also killed pretty much every human that has been born, so far.

It seems pretty good at what it does! :)