If you could go back in time and stop one disaster.....

[Shmoigel]

If you could go back in time and stop one disaster or other historical event, what would it be and how would you go about stopping it!

Chernobyl

There's quite a few..

Dunblane was awful, those poor children's parents!

I would go back in time and stop whichever fucker who came up with the idea of religion from doing it.

Not sure how I would do it, but if I had to I would happily shove him (bound to have been a man) off a cliff or something.

Aberfan. Heartbreaking. 💔

My marriage. Fecked up my life.All the usual world disasters too.

Thalidomide. I'd stop it in a heart beat. Those poor babies and their families

Absolutely awful and heart-breaking. I think something like that would be a lot easier to stop than anything related to terrorism (9/11) or mens egos (Chernobyl).

I think mine would be 9/11. I would warn the CIA about the entire plot. I think they had reports beforehand but I would give them the details and the repercussions. In terms of an event that made life never the same again I think its up there!

Most definitely agree! absolutely heartbreaking! Especially as it was mainly children.

The holocaust.

Natural disasters - the Indian ocean tsunami 2004

The Holocaust was my first thought. Short of killing Hitler as a baby I think it would be so hard to stop. My grandfather was one of the soldiers who liberated Belsen and he refused to discuss it. The horrors he must have seen.

I agree Aberfan. A whole generation gone from that village.

The creation of AI

Someone once said religion was invented to stop all those that have nothing from killing all those tht have everything.

Birth of Nigel Farage.

For current times I’m split between 9/11 and October 7th in Israel.

For historical times, The Final Solution or the Khmer Rouge Cambodian Atrocities

I've never heard that before, but whoever said it is very wise.

The Titanic would be another one that would be relatively easy to stop. All those people killed by two men and their arrogance!

This is Marxist-sounding historical speculation packaged as a clever aphorism.

Brexit and Boris Johnson.

Sandy Hook,Columbine.
Aberfan
Holocaust
Boxing Day Tsunami

My mistake,missed 'one event'

I suppose I would reverse a lot of negative impact humans have had on the planet. Pollutuon of land and sea; deforestation, overfishing, over-production, mass extinction of species due to loss of habitat etc etc.

Also, AI. Get rid of it.

Climate change

9/11 - the deaths of the day and in the decades after, the knock on effect of the ‘war on terror’, the Patriot Act 2001, the military overreach, the 20 year war in Afghanistan that failed, the deaths, the Weapons of Mass Destruction that never were, the deaths, the paving of the way for the post truth times …

The 'formation of Israel’ is an interesting way to say ‘I wish an entire people had never had a homeland.’ You can oppose Israeli government policies and Palestinian displacement without framing Jewish existence itself as a disaster.