Why not start with common sense?
But we have to start using common sense, and we have to use our heads," he said.
And you know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense," he added.
Professor Frank's advocacy of a carbon tax — starting now — is common sense.
"We tend to start losing our common sense a little bit when there are support groups for people addicted to support groups".
Stopping problems before they start sounds like common sense, but efforts to fund preventative programs are stymied by the nine barriers outlined in yesterday's post.
I don't think these statistics are going to change for the positive until all of us start exercising something we've been resistant to do so far -- put down that bag of chips, that generous helping of denial, and start exercising our common sense, even when we don't really want to.
As President Obama's popular plan to address climate change begins to move, climate change deniers have a choice: deny the science of climate change and risk being viewed as "ignorant" and "out-of-touch," or they can start to support common sense steps to deal with climate change, a threat that is already too real for many Americans.
Oil and gas operations are the source of over 7 million tons of methane pollution each year, which once in the atmosphere have the same warming effect as over 600 million tons of carbon dioxide, making them a good place to start by taking common sense measures to plug leaks.
Cities and states across the country are starting to enact common sense reforms such as requiring corporations to demonstrate cost savings, prohibiting companies that have evaded taxes from taking over services, requiring private contractors to provide the same level of transparency as do public agencies and ending contracts that guarantee profits regardless of quality of service.
The bias in its favour had grown so strong that the idea just started to seem like common sense.
