[ExI] Accelerando, The Spike, war and energy

[BillK]

On 3/3/10, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> One wonders OTOH whether they committed suicide out of personal fear for
> global warming ("better a clean, quick death than being boiled alive") or in
> order to avoid contributing thereto with their continuing metabolism, and
> perhaps indirect energy consumption.
>
>

There is more detail in the Argentinian press (in Spanish).

It appears that recently the man was very depressed and looked ill and
had been behaving increasingly erratically, talking about the earth
going to melt. In his youth he inherited a fortune but was now quite
poor. He called himself a healer and sold home remedies to make a
living. He was accused by the girl's father of 'abducting' the girl
three years ago when she was 19 or 20. He complained to the police,
but they said they could do little, due to her age. The girl was
completely dominated by the much older man. He kept the family indoors
so that the neighbours hardly knew they had children.
It looks as though the man planned the murders carefully then
committed suicide. He left money for the funerals and legal expenses
and a note ranting about the government and global warning.  It seems
to be a very sad case about a man who lost everything, became very
depressed and killed his family.


BillK