Despite all the weapons we develop and the way we go about our business nothing comes close to Mother Nature in sheer force. No matter what hits, a hurricane, tsunami, volcano it almost always devastates more than any human force can do. Even our doomsday devices, nuclear bombs, biological weapons and their like, are not as devastating as nature. Even if our useless politicians went all WWIII we would simply emulate one of the most devastating scenarios that Nature has available. It will be a long, long time until we get to the same destructive level as Nature.
Mother Nature is entering a time of destruction. As with nature it usually happens on a cycle and this is no exception. Changes due to the suns influence has impacted on humans for centuries. Periodically heating and cooling our planet as it sees fit. Only this time morons in charge think that they can stop it and are taxing us into perjury in a king Canute style attempt to fight Mother Nature. How stupid we are for letting them.
Meanwhile a real event is approaching. One of the least lethal but just as destructive events is predicted to take place over 2012 and 2013. A massive Solar Storm. A simple sneeze in the life of our sun. It’s been nearly 100 years since the last Solar Storm and back then, in 1921, our society was not as reliant on electronics as it is now yet that storm caused worldwide chaos and wiped out communications. What will it do to our society this time? For one we will just be entering a period of recovery from our economic woes and we can ill afford the disruption that almost two years of electrical disruption will cause and we are simply not prepared. Sure the power companies, major corporations, air traffic control and the like will beef up their key networks but what about the remainder and the small guy? Who will spend the money beefing up the telephone system to small villages, traffic lights every 25 yards on the UKs roads put in by councils with large pockets now running on empty? There will be significant disruption of our infrastructure. As we direct our money on a futile quest to control Nature we ignore the real issues that we can actually deal with.
Personally, I’ve set up a Faraday cage already. Only problem I have is that I can’t really benefit from what is in it until a year has passed. Makes it kind of useless for this event and so, another project, is to build a Faraday cage with airlock doors that I can use when I need to. I need a bigger house really.
How prepared are you and your community? If you are anything like mine the answer is not at all. It is worth thinking about now whilst we have the time to do something about it. After the first strike of the approaching storm hits you it is too late. Just hope we don’t get an early showing. Your gear is fried and the game is underway with no chance to replace anything. Oh and this will be an Act of God so don’t think insurance is the answer.
That’s actually a good point. If we can predict such an event, then it isn’t an ‘Act of God’, is it?
Bring it on, I say.
So what does this mean for the average person as it sounds like it could lead to the end of the world for a lot of us.
Timothy,
We can predict storms, hurricanes and the like. Still an act of God because we cannot initiate them or stop them. It is deemed only God can.
James,
Better get your Mac EMP proof.
Steve,
It does sound like that. I’ll have more of a think about it. I was discussing it yesterday with someone and it did start getting a bit scary.