Earth Is Space Australia

There's a trope I rather like in SF, which a reverse of the usual "all aliens are superior" thing. It isn't that humans are superior as such, but that humans are better at surviving - because the planet Sol III is a hellhole, a Deathworld. Such extremes of temperature, of landscape, of flora and fauna! How could any being survive it? Hence the "Earth is Space Australia" -- everything here is out to kill you. And the related trope, "Humans are Space Orcs", as a consequence of being native to a Deathworld.

( see some examples )

So, any recommendations for stories/novels/shows/movies that use this trope?