What instead worries me is that the inherent lack of the ability to look long term that we share as a species. Suppose in the future if we are in the face of an important species shaping issue the people will be even worse at choosing the right thing as selfishness and tribal mentality will reign.
I think this basically sounds like what's happening right now with climate change. We need to be doing whatever we can to slow climate change immediately; instead we have guys like Trump and Bolsonaro running some of the biggest countries in the world and they're just pouring gasoline on the fire.