Empathy, thinking about the near-term future or past, worrying - all products of evolution, traits that have helped us enough in the past to have been selected

Empathy, thinking about the near-term future or past, worrying - all products of evolution, traits that have helped us enough in the past to have been selected for. There has been no evolutionary pressure to develop much of a concern beyond one or two generations. And evolution hasn't equipped us with reward pathways or cognitive capacity to solve many of the problems now facing us and our surroundings - because those problems are new