#cos

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#clean #cost #drinking #drinking water #earth

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#avoided #best #costs #eye #i

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#attitude #bag #brand #brand new #costello

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#cause #costing #end #i #i love

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#even #get #i #off #surgery

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#build #capital #capital investment #cost #each

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#costs #due #entrepreneurial #eu #freedom

Disunity costs votes. ↗

— John Major

#votes