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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
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