#lit

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

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#air #bit #bring #down #foot

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#darkest #doctor #end #get #hard

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality. ↗

— Jay London

#bought #down #fit #girlfriend #jacket

And my little sister died when she was 16. ↗

— Jeremy London

#little #she #sister

I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all. ↗

— LaToya London

#gospel #guess #i #i do #i think

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk. ↗

— John Lone

#bit #i #like #little #little bit

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over. ↗

— John Lone

#bright #clued #educated #enough #few

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him. ↗

— Earl Long

#good #him #i #itches #kind