This, I think is why all (most) old people are conservative while young people tend to be more liberal (both in politics and in personal life). If you know that

This, I think is why all (most) old people are conservative while young people tend to be more liberal (both in politics and in personal life). If you know that a single mistake can ruin everything, you focus on not doing that mistake over anything else. And the only way to do that with limited information of the world is to just keep everything running the same way it's always been running. I've gone from being a capitalist libertarian to being some sort of a self-defined eco hippie because of this. I realized that the capital fueled "progress" changes things a lot and we can't guarantee that all those changes are good (even if we now think they are, we might later find out they weren't). On the other hand, when you change the ecosystem or the planet, it's changed for good and there's no going back. Therefore it's best not to meddle with shit we don't understand. Stop building new stuff, stop making new roads, stop destroying things to make them "better".