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The Shedd Institute www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Keola Beamer & Jeff Peterson March 23 Americans value free speech. SJWs don’t. Sadly, this is why SJWs are losing and are destroying the Left. This is not good. Joe Tyndall Eugene PROTEST ON THE TITANIC Corporate and governmental climate denial is not rooted in failure to understand science, but recognition that our endless growth economy requires endless increase of resource use. As fossil fuels deplete, so- lar panels might keep society together but at a much lower consumption level. Solar panels and wind farms don’t power air- planes and long distance truck networks. Relocalizing food production is more im- portant than hoping for a techno-fix. In the 1990s, Trump’s advisor Steve Ban- non was director of the Biosphere 2 project, an oil money funded effort to see if domed cities could shelter the super-rich while the rest of us succumb to eco-collapse. This is like the first class passengers on the Titanic getting in the lifeboats first, except we are all in the same boat of “Spaceship Earth” and there’s no escape for anyone. When energy rationing finally starts, due to geologic depletion, “stop drilling” groups may be popular scapegoats. Most people do not understand physical limits and may believe efforts to blame shortages on environmentalism. Protests do not sub- stitute for the logistics of food distribution. Instead of gimmicks for the billionaires or war preparations to grab remaining re- sources, we could implement large scale permaculture projects to improvise as many “lifeboats” as possible with the goal of rescuing everyone. Protesting systems that keep us fed and warm, without making practical efforts to create sufficient substi- tutes, seems counterproductive. Relocal- izing through local and global cooperation might work better than protesting the navi- gator of our sinking ship of state. Mark Robinowitz Eugene LEIGHTON FOR SCHOOL BOARD Three competent professionals are run- ning for the same seat on the Eugene 4J School Board in the May election. Two of these professionals are university profes- sors and one is an educator with direct ex- perience in public school teaching, school administration, teacher development pro- grams and policy analysis of the effects of school reform programs. Dr. Mary S. Leighton (Ph.D. in educa- tion from the University of Oregon) is the candidate with the most direct experience, training and involvement with the delivery and improvement of instruction in public schools. She has taught in public elemen- tary and secondary schools in Illinois, Cal- ifornia, Maryland and Oregon. She taught college teacher education courses in Mary- land and Oregon; she currently leads a teacher education initiative with the Work Force Partnership and the Eugene Cham- ber of Commerce. Dr. Leighton was the principal of the Network Charter School, which serves stu- dents in need of an alternative approach to education. She also has years of experience in education policy analysis, studying the effects of school reform programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The Eugene 4j School Board is facing many practical instruction and adminis- trative challenges that call for the kind of direct public school experience that Dr. Leighton can uniquely bring to delibera- tions. In short, the Eugene community will be best served by electing a person with a deep and successful career in actual public school instruction, administration and as- sessment. Elect Dr. Mary S. Leighton to the Eu- gene 4J School Board on Mary 16. F.T. Sobol Eugene March 24 Davina & The Vagabonds Don & Annette DeZarn March 30 Ana Popovic The Shedd Community Music School Music classes & private lessons: 541.434.7015 / registrar@theshedd.net eugeneweekly.com • March 23, 2017 5
