Re: Re: Exporting rubbish

[Ken Hanly]

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Subject: [PEN-L:10578] Re: Exporting rubbish

Maybe George Bush wrote that part of the memo..I assume the meaning is that
air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low in POLLUTANTS compared to
Los Angeles or Mexico City.
    Cheers, Ken Hanly


> In the infamous memo, LP wrote:
>
> >I've always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly
UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low
compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.
>
> I don't understand this sentence. First, it's a comma splice (says the
grammar queen in me); second, shouldn't the idea be that Africa's air
quality is to inefficiently high?--that is, the marginal returns from a
little pollution are less than the costs?
>