[ExI] Accelerando, The Spike, war and energy

[Stefano Vaj]

2010/3/2 Jeff Davis <heavensblade23 at gmail.com>:
> Assuming their food stamp allowance is enough to last through the month and
> they don't have to trade
> any for non-food essentials like toilet paper, soap, or especially diapers.

Wow, we might decide to grow gills, but a lack of toilet paper, soap
and especially diapers would really spell extinction for our
species... :-)

But, seriously, I have no doubts that wars might well be fought over them.

The question is exactly to which point the cost of
temperature-lowering measures would be offset by the damages avoided.

Because resources are *already* scarce, the world is already full of
people starving or - perhaps even worse in terms of political
instability - seeing their way of life under threat for a multitude of
reasons having little to do with climate.

And what we invest in the fight against AGW, taking for granted all
the claims of its supporters, become unavailable for anything else.

-- 
Stefano Vaj