But EXXI may be a clear example of Wall Street throwing out the baby with the bathwater and in this case some oil-polluted bathwater.

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Israeli airstrikes against a Lebanese oil refinery created an oil slick that has polluted some 80 miles of Mediterranean coastline, leaving the filthy beaches deserted at the height of the tourist season.

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Chicken Littles in those days argued that the earth was becoming overpopulated, that we were running out of food, oil and other natural resources, that we were becoming more polluted.

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