The Butterfly Effect!

The politically correct crowd and the environmentalists are really starting to get on my nerves.

Two stories here, one from far away and the other just down the road!

The European Commission is seeking a court order to prevent Poland re-starting work on a road through a protected wildlife area.

The road - which carries traffic from Warsaw to Helsinki - goes through the Rospuda Valley - a peat-bog area that is home to rare plants and animals.

Warsaw halted work for the bird-nesting season but plans to resume on 1 August.

It says environmental damage would be minimal, because the plan is for a viaduct not a road at ground level.

"The EU is asking the European Court of Justice to issue an injunction to prevent irreversible damage to a unique environmental site," said Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas.

The Commission wants work suspended until the European Court decides whether the road - a 40km (25-mile) bypass around the town of Augustow - complies with strict EU environmental laws.

The town is crossed every day by some 4,500 heavy goods vehicles on their way to and from the Lithuanian border.

The British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has complained the project puts at risk strongholds of lynx and wolf and "the most important European Union populations of two globally-threatened birds: the greater spotted eagle and aquatic warbler".

Commission officials say Poland could lose hundreds of millions of euros of funding for other stretches of the planned Via Baltica, from Warsaw to Helsinki, if it goes ahead with the Rospuda project.

We have a similar situation here in good old London, Ontario. There is a main north / south route called Adelaide Street that runs from the main highway in the south straight up to the far North part of the city.

Well maybe I should say that it almost runs straight up because there is a stretch in the middle of about 1/2 miles in length, that goes, (or DOESN'T go) through a valley and there is no road there.

It seems there were some endangered butterfly's and a wetland that was deemed environmentally sensitive so we now have thousands of cars that have to drive 5 miles out of their way in a detour so this "Eco-friendly valley" is not disturbed.

(By the way, they have been doing this detour for the last thirty years!!!!)

For the sake of a few butterfly's and birds, there has been a disruption through the centre of town that has cost us thousands and tens thousands of dollars over the years so I propose that someone go in there with a butterfly net and remove the offending creatures so that we can get on with things.

If that doesn't work, take a shotgun in there and blow the little bastards away.

That will solve the problem once and for all.............. environmentalists or not!

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 at www.God-101.com

(As for the "politically correct" crowd ............. fuck you too!)