Perhaps. Unfortunately their people- or at least those of his Krypton- were rarely proactive when it came to potential (or inevitable) future problems.

Jor-El hadn't expected Kal-El to approach closer, or to speak to him. In retrospect, it was something that he would have found difficult to resist himself, even more so when he was younger.

"I don't, thank you. As for avoiding a catastrophe, it would not have been a very large one."