If the United States were to take in more Syrian refugees, the numbers would be tiny compared to what is happening in the Middle East and Europe.
The amount of money will be tiny compared to the budget for EMAs, and with institutions left to choose who and what they fund, a postcode lottery will emerge.
Besides, he notes, mining ice cubes from glaciers on the scale that Svaice is proposing would be tiny compared to the environmental impact of most extractive and energy-intensive industries, such as aluminum production.
Congress only barely passed the Bush administration's Central America Free Trade Agreement, even though its impact on the American economy will be tiny compared to the ambitions contemplated for Doha.
"But any short term savings from doing this will be tiny compared to the long-term cost to the NHS of treating these complications," she said.
That private emotional real estate will be tiny compared to the whole earth but if, like Faulkner or Thomas Bernhard or Jorge Luis Borges, you can make it come to life, it will be quite enough.
