TO THE EDITOR
them in zoos. Is it too
late to save us from
ourselves?
No, it is not. But
we must become
every one of us good
stewards of the envi-
ronment upon which
our lives ultimately
depend. Ours is an in-
teresting planet. It de-
serves all the atten-
tion we can give it.
Todd Huffman,
M.D.
Eugene
HUMORLESS
FRINGE
contrary, the role of human beings in causing
our planetary fever has been established scien-
tifically with about the same degree of cer-
tainty as the role of alcohol in drunk-driving.
We are altering the climate and toxifying the
air, water, and soil to such degree that the pres-
ent and future health of humans and of all
earthly life is at growing risk.
Not content with having subdued nature,
we are rapidly proceeding to beat it to a pulp.
Such is the central conceit of our age: that the
trees in the forest stand ready solely for us to
cut them down, that the mountain peaks stand
majestic solely for us to blast them flat, that
the animals in the wild exist solely for us to put
The recent cries
of protest against
“¡Ask a Mexican!”
have been sadly unsurprising. I expect the re-
action from the right: “Illegals are ruining our
nation!” What makes me sad is how I was also
unsurprised by the knee-jerk offense ex-
pressed by the liberal white “Latino/a
friends.”
Arellano writes a smart, funny column and
does not pull punches. He takes on the
Minutemen in-your-face racism as well as the
liberal “some of my best friends are
Mexicans” racism, and he does it with humor.
Please don’t let the humorless fringe groups
convince you to drop this wonderful column.
Jeff Yamada
Eugene
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