Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

Wow, just like after the plagues!

Oh, well: it should make the environmentalists happy to have wolfpacks roaming the suburbs of Paris, Brussels, and Berlin.

I thought that same thing, dojim!:) The article mentions that "this sounds like an eco-environmentalist's dream, inspiring loose talk of a Europe Pastoral—the return of wide-open spaces and primeval wilderness to a densely settled landscape" - but it turns out that environmentalists are against this, because of the shrubs. Yes, the shrubbery. Ni!

"This isn't necessarily the environmentalist's dream it might seem. The scrub brush and forest that grows on abandoned land might be good for deer and wolves, but is vastly less species-rich than traditional farming, with its pastures, ponds and hedges. 'Once shrubs cover everything, you lose the meadow habitat. All the flowers, herbs, birds and butterflies disappear,' says the EEA's Petersen. 'A new forest doesn't get diverse until it's a couple of hundred years old.'" Heh. Oh, the poor butterflies.

"Outside the range of these subsidies—in Bulgaria, Romania or Ukraine—big tracts of land are returning to the wild." Hee-hee."Big tracts of land", eh?

Nah, it'll be filled with "Asians" (Muslims) who will change the culture so that Italians can no longer sip wine at their sidewalk cafes.

On another note, the tracts in the Ukraine that are returning to wild are in large part a result of the evacuations following the Chernobyl disaster.

The world ends, not with a bang, but the whimper of wolf pups.