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The paradox exists because, in a market economy, the value of water is set not by the total usefulness of water (infinite) or by the average usefulness of water (very large), but by the marginal value of the last drop of water consumed (very low).

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We have only been discussing and consumed with high-level preoccupations over troop levels, drawdown timelines, surges and sting operations, when we should be examining the details of where the social fabric has been most torn, where the community has improvised and survived and shown acts of resilience and amazing courage just to keep life going.

We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties.

I was forcing things to change because I was consumed by the need to succeed or to prove myself.

And tragically in [2003], a scientist was taken down and drowned, and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

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