All of the 72 deaths caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 were avoidable. The same could be said of the 346 people who died in two separate Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. And the the 47 people killed in 2013 by a train derailment in Canada, or the 116 children and 28 adults killed in the Aberfan mine disaster in 1966.
These were not unforeseeable events. In all of these cases, and many many more, people knew that things could go wrong, but nothing, or too little, was done.
