How did early man compromise and/or have conflict with the environment

Early man had constant conflict with the environment. Nature and the environment do not have feelings or emotions or reasoning and therefore cannot engage in compromise. Early man constantly dealt with conflict with the environment, this would include adapting to the harsh seasonal weather conditions and other extreme weather which would expose early man to conditions that could easily kill him if not prepared. Early man in a hunter gatherer capacity would have to attempt to find some sort of stability in order to survive basic needs of food and shelter, this critical components could easily be wiped out, even with the knowledge of the environment and seasonal weather changes, due to poor planning and/or extreme situations that destroyed food sources like freezing temperatures or high winds.