Occasional disasters have sadly been a fact of life all over the planet. In our generation,
however, we have never seen a volcano explode with anything like the climate changing force of Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 which caused “the year without summer” even in the United States. As for outbreaks of disease, the influenza pandemic following World War I killed more than the great war itself—an estimated 20 to 40 million people worldwide.
Nevertheless, there is something about the calamities of our day which proclaim that the “End of Days” is at our doorstep.
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