• Question: If you had the chance to change something in history to help our world what would it be?

    Asked by anon-224675 to Simon, Selen, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      There’s a slippery slope: if you change one thing, that changes other things, like a snowball rolling downhill. Before you know it, everything has changed. I would argue it is better for people like you to change the future

    • Photo: Natalie Fowler

      Natalie Fowler answered on 18 Nov 2019:

      I think Paul is right, it would be impossible to change one isolated thing because of the knock on effects. I would like to encourage people to have considered the impact we might be having on climate change earlier because we are approaching a “too little, too late” situation I think!

    • Photo: Katy Bruce

      Katy Bruce answered on 25 Nov 2019:

      I also echo Paul’s comment about the danger of changing the way things are – rather like removing one species from a food chain, it would cause havoc.
      Having said that, I wish that I could have made the public more aware of the dangers of taking antibiotics unless absolutely necessary. We are now facing global antimicrobial resistance, meaning that we are running out of effective antibiotics. One of the reasons this is happening is because people request them as they think they will make them better, but the reality is they don’t work on viruses, such as the common cold. This then allows certain bacteria to mutate and become resistant to standard antibiotics, leaving doctors with fewer treatment options 🙁

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