“...Disasters on the Rise or Is It Just Our Imagination?...”
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“Disasters” are neither on the rise nor in our imagination.
Truck Crashes, aircraft crashes, train crashes,
fires, floods, ships sinking, etc.
These things have always been happening,
but with the internet, people are aware of them.
Exactly.
Also we just got hit by a class M solar storm. Rare but has happened before. Caused some network and power disruptions generally not covered in the lame stream media. At least it was not a class X. Last one of those was in 1859. Did a lot of damage to power and telegraph systems.
As you said, disasters have been happening for a very long time. Most people just don’t know history.
In addition, the more technology is being relied on for day to day tasks, the more the opportunity for something to go wrong.