[ExI] Accelerando, The Spike, war and energy

[spike]

...
> 
> ...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...Stefano Vaj

I don't know what, if anything, to make of this.  A couple committed murder
suicide, leaving a note that they feared global warming.  Possibly an
example of what I mentioned yesterday, where the proletariat has been told
degree per century, but somehow they understand it as a degree per year?
The little girl survived:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/7344329/Bab
y-survives-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html

spike