Humans, apparently, are still in the early stages of evolving extended response mechanisms. But it seems likely that by the time we portion more of our brain to long-term dangers, there will be few grizzly bears around to worry about, and a whole lotta global warming.

Seems like an example of what ledoux calls 'quick and dirty' thinking. That's a type of reaction generated by deep structures in the amygdala hippocampus and generally what was known as the limbic system. Higher cortical modulation of these bottom-up signals varies between humans and is at least to some extent dependent upon mental development aka emotional intelligence, equanimity etc.