**The creature actually killed in the story was a butterfly, hence the name "the crushed butterfly theory."
In Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy, he gives us a future where earth is enviromentally blasted by overpopulation and pollution. People have had to retreat to protective arcologies (Shades of William Gibson and Paolo Solarie!)
The storms that rage around the planet are called "armada storms" One Earth dweller gives the derivation as coming from chaos theory. "If a butterfly flapping its wings in China can create a hurricane off Florida, what could an armada of butterflies accomplish?"
I did feel a twinge of recognition, though when I read that bit in Hamilton. Obviously, the man knows his Bradbury
Pippen