"If Nature wasn't kind, how did we make it for those hundreds of thousands of years?" Some thrived, but a lot did not. Humans were down to a tiny population at

"If Nature wasn't kind, how did we make it for those hundreds of thousands of years?" Some thrived, but a lot did not. Humans were down to a tiny population at one point. And low-tech is still tech. Fire, tools, pots, and agriculture are all ways to overcome nature.