Food shortages 'permanent' and shoppers will never again enjoy full choice of items, Britons warned

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. Does anyone remember the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov?

I read it in 9th Grade, I think. Two things REALLY stuck with me:

a) While it's next to impossible to predict what a random individual might do in a given scenario, the confidence in that prediction rises dramatically with a greatly increased sample size.

And...3) A country will put up with all kinds of deprivation and loss of life if the cause is large and dramatic. If the consequences of a different set of circumstances are annoyance, inconvenience and distress over loss of creature comforts or little delicacies, the same people that would accept having the nation's children die in combat will be screaming bloody murder.

In short...Britons are going to be dealing with First World Problems. They will get over it.