And not a minute too soon--as the Guardian reports today, The Food Climate Research Network at the University of Surrey just released a study declaring that those of us in developed nations "will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change".
There's no likelyhood that water will be rationed, since the only way to work it is to decrease the pressure at the source.
This means that British consumers and producers will have to bear the entire brunt of devaluation: their import consumption will be rationed through a sharp rise in price inflation, with no offsetting gain for exports.
Re "Gorge Yourself": So the solution to the obesity problem in the United States is for the government to develop a highly nutritious, but just barely palatable gruel, whose availability will be rationed but will still be sold at a high price, without any advertising.
(Myth) Health care will be rationed.
Health care, like all finite resources in the universe, is rationed today and will be rationed in the future.
Once in that system, created by the health care overhaul law passed last year, their medical care will be rationed by a government board of 15 bureaucrats, she said.
Even assuming that government consumption growth will remain robust thanks to fiscal stimulus measures, domestic demand overall is forecast to contract by 1.5%, ending five consecutive years of expansion.Credit growth, which was an important driver of economic expansion in recent years, will be rationed in the next two years.
Every health system on earth is and always will be rationed: the US insurance system runs on a little brown book listing with brutal clarity exactly what can be spent on each condition, cutting people off thereafter: it hasn't reduced overall costs that are far higher than ours for far less treatment.
From now until then, what remains will be rationed by price.
