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For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.
For example, a large, modern tank army is a powerful resource if a war is fought in a desert, but not if it is fought in a swamp - as America discovered in Vietnam.
With so much at stake, it makes sense to place sentinels near every swamp, city, public market, and farmyard on earth.
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans' levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Nakivubo Swamp is an excellent example of the need for careful valuation of the environment.
The swamp is close to the city center and its industrial center, and there is a land shortage in Kampala.
The Nakivubo Swamp is not a case of economic logic prevailing, but exactly the opposite - a failure to consider all options and choose the best.
Much of lower Manhattan would still be a swamp, rather than being turned into the powerhouse of New York City, at a huge cost to society.
A spiralling AIDS epidemic could swamp the whole society.
The word stagnation suggests a swamp, implying a breeding ground for virulent dangers.
While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.
How can we drain the public-policy swamp?
This is also a huge potential problem with the TPP, because competitive devaluations can swamp any other gains from trade by an order of magnitude, with substantial negative effects on US jobs.