[higgmeister]

Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

This seems to allude that modern technology will cause solar eruptions. A little less sensationalism is in order I think.

[DevNet]

No - they are saying that our way of life is much more vulnerable to such damage.