Australia s Kevin Rudd agrees that the cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of action.

The cost of inaction would be considerably higher than the required investment.

But even the most reluctant policymakers recognize that the cost of inaction is too great.

But Barroso s punchline was that the cost is low compared to the high price of inaction.

It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.

Given the low cost and the huge benefits of supporting such efforts, there is no excuse for inaction.

The cost of inaction or merely pretending to act is likely to be high for everyone in the Middle East.

What we stand to loose if we do not act in a preventative manner, i.e. cost of inaction or business as usual.

Despite these difficulties, the Ugandan government recognises that the cost of providing protection and assistance to the 250 refugees who arrive into the country each day is dwarfed by the cost of inaction.

An analytical framework that integrates environmental costs and benefits, and also the cost of inaction in decision making, should be developed for this purpose.

The Price of Inaction

The EU s argument is similar to advising a man with a gangrenous leg that paying 50,000 for an aspirin is a good deal because the cost compares favorably to the cost of inaction, which is losing the leg.

The success stories in public health for the poor are multiplying. Given the low cost and the huge benefits of supporting such efforts, there is no excuse for inaction.

Misusing the Inaction Argument

Besides, is inaction a real alternative?

The costs of inaction are morally and economically untenable.

Democracy in Inaction at the World Bank

The dangers of both action and inaction are very high.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

So there is no excuse for continued inaction.

The risk of inaction or inappropriate action has reached enormous proportions.

The G 8 is now reaping the consequences of its inaction.

There are structural explanations for policy inaction as well.

Slovakia does not consider inaction to be an answer.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has gone on record with the exact same words. In the United States, both John McCain and Barack Obama use the cost of inaction as a pivotal reason to support carbon cuts.

Inaction is simply not an option for the new government.

Inaction in other areas will be bad news for many.

The scale of the violence in Syria underscores the risk implied by inaction.

Such inaction is an abdication of responsibility to uphold international and humanitarian law.

The cost will be 1 billion, but the EU says that this is incredibly cheap when compared to the cost of inaction on climate change, which will run into the trillions. It should be obvious that the 1 billion windmill doesn t negate the trillions of dollars of damage from climate change that we still have to pay by the end of the century.

But the long term nature of this challenge must not lull us into inaction.

This has resulted in stalemate, because governments can always blame failure on the inaction of others.

But the resulting economic inaction would be just as damaging to the consolidation of democratic rule.

Let us therefore be realistic and not make the absence of consensus an excuse for inaction.

Twenty years later, with the stakes even higher, we can no longer afford inaction.

But theStern Report is still right to argue that the potential risks of continued inaction are far greater.

The task, then, is to break down the barriers of inaction and connect existing capabilities with developing interventions.

Political and philosophical differences about the nature of terrorism must not be used as an excuse for inaction.

Jamshidi also criticized the Judiciary authorities inaction against people who destroy natural parks and resources.

Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, Don't get involved. Mind your own business.

We must, however, temper our ideals with a dose of realism, and prevent inaction from taking the place of action.

To act, politicians need consensus, which often does not emerge until the costs of inaction have become highly visible.

Government inaction on the issue has incited a number of protests within the city and in the capital Skopje.

The need for corrective measures to alleviate inequality is no excuse for inaction on global warming.