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tesy of all the businesses LTD collects tax
monies from as their buses pass by on pecu-
liarly laid out routes.
I say we should’ve taken all that money
and bought every bus rider a car. My bet is
they’d appreciate that a lot more than six
minutes to nowhere. That being said, since
this is Eugene, we’d give them the choice of a
shiny new bicycle if they preferred. Calling it
as I see it.
Steve Hatz
Springfield
NOT SUSTAINABLE
Please don’t take this too personally, but
our biosphere is quickly approaching near
collapse via a biological holocaust and the al-
teration of the climate by our bloody unsus-
tainable lifestyles supported by science and
technology.
Just a few nights ago, I learned from a
Jean-Michel Cousteau mini documentary
that about 200 million sharks are slaughtered
each year for, among other things, shark fin
soup. (So please don’t eat any form of shark
and for you animal rights folks, here is a
cause for you. Save the shark!) It boggles my
mind that we as a species can be so ruthless
and reckless with our life support systems.
Yet this type of scientific discovery and
analysis is crucial to saving the shark and the
human species.
Yet we pour billions upon billions of dol-
lars into science for a better video game or
faster computer or a smaller cell phone or
better bomb or faster rocket or to send a man
to Mars or some other form of what I call
“scientific masturbation.” Projects that only a
few scientists get benefits and pleasure from
with zero or negative value to society or to
the biosphere.
Science that has no real benefit to saving
the biosphere or conserving species or clean-
ing the toxics from our environment or less-
ening our impact on natural resources should
not be funded by foundations or governments
considering the seemingly insurmountable
catastrophe we are beginning to see right be-
fore our very eyes.
Shannon Wilson
Eugene
a large majority of the American people want
us out of Iraq (Bush’s war performance is ap-
proved by a mere 17 percent).
So up he pops, with a totally wrong re-
sponse — expand the war — at the cost of
more lives lost and a few hundred million dol-
lars more each week. The military death rate
will go from three to four or five each day.
We can’t count on the newly elected
Democratic majority in Congress to stop this
escalation or this war. We’re at a point similar
to early 1968 with Vietnam. That was when
opposition to the war, ineffective in stopping
Lyndon Johnson’s repeated escalations,
turned to resistance. We’re facing just such a
choice. Bush wants until November to try out
his disastrous new policy; by then another
thousand troops will be dead.
The president says he won’t let a popular-
ity contest control his strategy. Excuse me,
but a basic tenet of democracy is for the pop-
ular will to decide national policies. If this
popular will is totally ignored, the right, even
the necessity, of resistance reverts to the peo-
ple. I just hope this resistance is based on bet-
ter judgement than was the case with some of
us in the ’60s.
Paul Prensky
Eugene
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