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Company spokesperson: In lieu of redesigning our plants, our company recently launched an environmental protection campaign to buy and dispose of old cars, which are generally highly pollutive. ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ██████████ █████ ███████████ ████ ███████ ████ ███████ ███ ████████████ ████████ ██ ████ ██████ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███████████ ███ ███████
Summarize Argument
The company spokesperson concludes that the company will reduce air pollution more by buying old cars than it would by redesigning its plants. She supports this by saying that, while the company’s plants account for 4% of local air pollution, automobiles from before 1980 account for 30%.
Notable Assumptions
The company spokesperson assumes a net benefit of disposing of old cars without considering any costs, like how car disposal methods might impact pollution. She also doesn’t consider other factors that might reduce the benefits of the plan, like how many old cars and what kinds of old cars must be disposed of to make a real impact. She also doesn’t address any long-term benefits of redesigning the plants, other than addressing 4% of local air pollution, that might outweigh the benefits of disposing of old cars.
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