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Boulder needs a performing arts center Your nationally award-winning Boulder Concert Band recently participated in a community band festival in Denver, where we had the glorious experience of performing on an actual stage with lovely acoustics. And yet a city as culturally deep as Boulder still doesn’t have a proper performing arts center that can accommodate a full-sized symphonic wind ensemble like ours. Other cities in the area, like Longmont and Broomfield, are way ahead of us, but we continue to procrastinate.
Many brick-and-mortar businesses are closing, leaving larger buildings that could be refurbished. Why aren’t we making this happen in Boulder? Marilyn R. Kroner, Vice President, Boulder Concert Band For my husband, the public servant, a poem Fifteen years, a steadfast call, / A servant to the public, to science, to all.
/ Not for wealth, nor fleeting fame, / But for truth, for duty, for honor’s name. A scientist — honored and known, / His reach extends where great minds have grown. / Respected abroad, his wisdom sought, / Yet here at home, his work is fought.
He does not serve for power or gold, / But for the people, the young and old. / A civil servant, steady, true, / With a mission clear — to help you. His hands help shield both life and land, / Protecting what we fail to plan.
/ He studies storms , the shifting tide , / To keep us safe , to be our guide. His work, like others in his field, / Brings food to tables, strength to yield. / He safeguards homes, the farms, the sky, / He builds the world on which we rely.
Yet voices jeer, they call him “lazy,” / Their vision warped, their logic hazy. / They strip the halls of those who care, / And leave behind an empty chair. He’s watched them go, forced out in pain, / Future leaders, lost in vain.
/ Brilliant minds, dismissed, betrayed, / By hands that twisted truth and played. The trust is shattered, the wound runs deep , / Who will return? Who dares to leap? / For when the honest are cast aside, / Who will stand where honor died? Still, he remains, though hearts may ache, / Not for applause, nor what he’d take. / But for the work, for what is right, / For science, for justice, for truth in the light.
Jaci Turner, Boulder Geoengineering is no “silver bullet” for climate crisis As a Coloradan committed to protecting not only my state’s but the world’s vital and delicate ecosystems, I was deeply concerned to read the Daily Camera’s guest opinion suggesting that “ Geoengineering might be necessary ” from March 5. The comment misrepresents key scientific and policy positions without fully addressing its risks or governance challenges. These speculative, high-risk technologies pose a serious threat to life everywhere on Earth and should not be uncritically promoted.
This opinion brushes over the well-documented risks of geoengineering, including the potential of these highly speculative technologies to undermine global food and water security and to violate the rights of billions of people. Conspicuously, it also fails to reference termination shock — the catastrophic spike in global temperatures that could occur if these technologies were ever suddenly halted once deployed. Critically, the opinion ignores the fact that geoengineering is already subject to existing international bans.
Recognizing the severe threats to biodiversity, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) placed all geoengineering techniques under a de facto moratorium in 2010. The CBD and the London Convention/London Protocol also specifically prohibit commercial ocean iron fertilization , yet the piece raises it as a potential technique with no mention of these legal restrictions. This sanitized portrayal of geoengineering perpetuates the myth that we can engineer a “silver bullet” for the climate crisis.
In reality, geoengineering, if deployed, could intensify climate change, exacerbate ocean acidification, and give fossil fuel companies a “free pass” to continue polluting — delaying the fast, fair, fully funded phaseout of fossil fuels we urgently need. Alana M. Carlson, Denver.
