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Meh, only US and Canada will be affected, quasi-DC geocurrents are only a problem for cheap ground return grids, like they got there.
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In practice, it can be turned into a non-event just by shutting down power for a day. If not, many power transformers will explode.
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These take months to make with infrastructure intact and there are no spares, so an entire sunlit hemisphere would be screwed.
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TL;DR: We will see it coming in time to avoid damage, but politicians are too stupid to understand the mandatority of it, so we will suffer.