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TO THE EDITOR
got ice from Carl’s Jr. and helped him limp
back just as his bus came. Thank you to
the two young women who thought to
help! What about the rest of you?
Betsy Ragland
Eugene
VISION OF JUSTICE
Envision a world without nuclear
catastrophes and toxic spewing incineration
waiting to destroy us, where decentralized
electric production is located at every
structure with a power line, where each
home, offi ce and school is retrofi tted with
solar thermal capturing heat pumps for
space and water heating needs, where the
most benefi cial technologies are shared with
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Envision gardens in every yard to
help feed us and our neighbors (birds,
pollinators and humans), a small
decentralized governing body that protects
the people from harms via corporations,
the elite, psychopaths, as well as manmade
and natural disasters. Imagine where
people depend on their neighbors, friends,
and local farmers for their health and
happiness, where the hoarding of money
in bank accounts and the stock market is
not a necessity for one’s future wellbeing.
Why isn’t this vision of culture and
economic justice a reality to us in this
country? It does exist in various forms
around the globe. Why not here? Who
is conspiring to stop us from achieving
what Martin Luther King Jr. and John F.
Kennedy called our dream of justice?
Shannon Wilson
Eugene
ABANDON CAPITALISM?
In the EW lately there seem to have
been more writers faulting such events as
extensive logging, tax cuts for the wealthy,
the fl ight of jobs overseas, the lack of public
in-put on property uses, etc. I wondered if
these writers understood that they were
attacking the basic economic system of our
Country, capitalism. Have they explored
what other things would have to change to
achieve the goals they so vehemently favor?
The drastic curtailing of present economic
motivations, for one; the instituting of
severe population curbs for another?
It’s very satisfying to fulminate. I do
it. But economic systems tend to come in
packages; i.e., you can’t just change one thing.
It so happens that I agree with these writers’
viewpoints, but we all need to consider
carefully what we would give up if we
abandoned capitalism, inescapable though
such a change may turn out to be. What
would replace it, to move us to do the world’s
work? This needs a lot of serious thought.
Don MacQueen
Eugene
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