the sister carried and the large one
folded over and down between both
arms of the little brother as they
happily headed off with their catch.
As I watched these two little bare
footed children in tattered clothing
bravely labouring for what will
become their meal I could not
help but compare them with our
modern, Western World children. I
remembered the last time I visited
Canada and heard the news of a
young teenage girl who committed
suicide because her parents would
not allow her to go to the concert
of one of her favourite pop stars. I
remember my frustration as a college
tutor dealing with learners who
did no work but thought they had
some entitlement to still succeed.
I observed other tutors and even
department heads cheat on their
behalf to give them success they did
not earn. I remember my own children
who were always complaining that
there is nothing in the house to eat,
which really meant there was nothing
already prepared that they could just
microwave.
In the case of a global economic
and technological meltdown which
of the two groups of children would
be able to survive? The answer is
obviously those poor resourceful
Third World Country children who
can feed themselves without money
or technology. They have the skills
to survive without gas, piped water,
electricity or even adult help? The
youths and many adults of the First
World would not fare so well. You
see, the prosperity of the West will
no doubt be its undoing. We have
fallen in love with the objects of
our prosperity, we now worship our
golden calf and have turned away
from the true God. The result is a
generation of mostly self absorbed
and lazy children who would go
into shock if their mobile phone’s
network went down. The pride and
impertinence
of the present
Western World
generation
is
clear
evidence
of
an impending
crash.
“Pride
goes
before
destruction,
and
a
haughty spirit
before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18 Our
dependence on technology is not a
blessing but a curse. Our punishment
for abandoning God will become
evident when our technology fails -
and it will.
How plausible is the theory of a
global technological failure?
It’s not just plausible but is in fact
sure to happen. The right question
therefore, is not if but when. Today
there are many likely ways modern
civilisation could come to a sudden
end and a technological failure is one
of the most plausible. “The pride
of man will be humbled and the
loftiness of men will be abased; And
the Lord alone will be exalted in that
day…” Isa iah 2:17
A Solar Flare
All it takes is a simple Solar flare to
wipe out half the world’s electrical
grid and fry computer chips.
“While you didn’t see it, feel it, or
even read about it in the newspapers,
Earth was almost knocked back to
the Stone Age on July 23, 2012. It
wasn’t some crazed dictator with his
finger on the thermonuclear button
or a giant asteroid that came close
to wiping out civilization as we know
it, though — no, what nearly ended
us was a massive solar storm. Almost
two years ago to the day, our most
bounteous and fantastical celestial
body — the Sun — kicked out one
of the largest solar flares and coronal
mass ejections ever recorded. And it
missed Earth by a whisker. “If it had
hit, we would still be picking up the
pieces,” says Daniel Baker, who led
the research into the massive solar
storm… If a giant solar storm hit the
Earth, large parts of society could be
without power for months or years.
Pete Riley, a physicist who looked
at extreme space weather events for
the last 50 years, says there’s a 12%
chance that a Carrington-level storm
will hit Earth in the next 10 years.”
https://www.extremetech.com/
extreme/186805-the-solar-storm-of-2012-that-
almost-sent-us-back-to-a-post-apocalyptic-
stone-age
These limited pages does not allow
for the discussion of the many
different ways this whole globe could
suffer a major set back.
The paradigm shift
The writer of the article above was not
exaggerating when he said we would
be knocked back into the Stone Age
in the event of Carrington-level solar
storm. Our modern, First World, high
tech dependent countries would
lose their electricity and computers
upon which our lives are built. There
would be no water in the pipes,
no gas for cooking, no mobile/
telephone communication, no shops/
supermarkets selling food, no money
to trade with (92% of the world’s
money is electronic) no vehicles to
travel in as there would be no way
to transport or pump petrol, the list
goes on. There would be no garbage
collection, no water to flush toilets or
to have a bath, no Continued on pg 25
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