Radiohead backs WW2-style austerity program  Music for a new
society?  Transforming your business with flash storage  Heaven
knows, we're miserable now  I've noticed two curious aspects to
this "war" which might help shed some light on it (no pun
intended). I have no idea which is the more significant - and
perhaps you can help?  The first is the underlying assumption
that resources are finite. This has a corollary: which is that
these limited resources are close to exhaustion, and
therefore... the end times are a'comin'!  In fact, "resources"
are anything we can usefully make stuff with. Cavemen knew
nothing of naphtha crackers, or how to make anthracite. Spectrum
scarcity was not a concern for Newton. Today, we've barely begun
to tap into the potential of fusion, or geothermal energy.  So
it's odd to hear someone urging us to turn down the heating -
and get accustomed to shivering miserably in our cold homes -
when we're sitting on a global furnace. Fossil fuels may be
exhausted, but what got us here was a