The kind of EMP disaster that you see in Call of Duty would be extremely unlucky as a natural event, but could be recovered. Many electrical things will stop working, but some things will be protected, others less so, and the other side of the Earth would still be fine.
People would die, but it's a recoverable disaster.
Remember that the Sun is a sphere, and we are a very tiny spec 96 million miles away. Any Carrington Events have to be pointed at us, and hit us in just the right place.
It would impact the outcome of who rules the world for the next century depending on what parts of the planet get hit. If it was the west, end of the western cultural dominance et al. Happens in the east and that’s the end of the rise of the dragon and India for several decades.
As General Boobs said, exceedingly rare.
The kind of EMP disaster that you see in Call of Duty would be extremely unlucky as a natural event, but could be recovered. Many electrical things will stop working, but some things will be protected, others less so, and the other side of the Earth would still be fine.
People would die, but it's a recoverable disaster.
Remember that the Sun is a sphere, and we are a very tiny spec 96 million miles away. Any Carrington Events have to be pointed at us, and hit us in just the right place.
It would impact the outcome of who rules the world for the next century depending on what parts of the planet get hit. If it was the west, end of the western cultural dominance et al. Happens in the east and that’s the end of the rise of the dragon and India for several decades.