[ExI] Accelerando, The Spike, war and energy

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 17:49:25 UTC 2010


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.
>
> I must say that I find the second possibility even more disquieting, but all
> in all more likely.
>
>

Can you believe anything written in popular newspapers?

The whole story is built around a note found by the police.
Can I have more evidence please?

He was 56, his wife was 23.
Were they having marital / financial problems?
It is not that uncommon for a man to kill his family when his wife
says she wants to leave and take the children with her. There have
been cases like that recently in the UK. The global warming story
sounds very odd to me.

BillK



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