Discussion of All Things Political

I'm thinking there has been evolutionary pressure for long-term thinking and common sense, for most of our history in the temperate and high latitudes. Some of those interesting history projects where modern people got to work like 19th century settlers. The idea in one case was to keep getting up early enough and work hard enough to process enough fodder and food to keep themselves fed during Great Plains winters. Turns out the moderns had no idea how fast and hard they had to work to manage this, but that just says the ancestors who survived it did know, all too well, what they had to do.
Also, to be fair, there's just as many food growing problems in tropic and subtropical zones, it's just more likely to be drought, disease or insect pests that cause the issues there, plus disasters like monsoon flooding. Trying to farm when you've living with tropical diseases, for instance.