Present levels have reached 400 parts per million,

“The thing that you have to understand about nature and natural law is, there’s no mercy…. There’s only law. And if you don’t understand…

— Mary Christina Wood

“You can’t negotiate with a beetle. You are now dealing with natural law. And if you don’t understand natural law, you will soon.”

— Mary Christina Wood

“As James Gustave Speth wrote in his book A Bridge at the Edge of the World, if we continue business as usual, the world…

— Mary Christina Wood

“old Indian proverb, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children,”

— Mary Christina Wood

“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.”

— Mary Christina Wood

“Climate crisis presents nearly unfathomable urgency because of what scientists call “tipping points” – climate tripwires, so to speak. These thresholds, caused by human…

— Mary Christina Wood

“Government, deriving its authority from the people as a whole, must act as a fiduciary to protect the natural resources held in trust from…

— Mary Christina Wood

“Scientists warn that only a narrow window of opportunity remains in which to address climate emergency and other environmental calamities before irrevocable tipping points…

— Mary Christina Wood

“Thomas Friedman captures the twin tasks when he says: “Avoid the unmanageable and manage the unavoidable.”

— Mary Christina Wood

“Often it does not matter much what the law says; the politics will circumvent it. Every devastated watershed, every new mile of sprawl, every…

— Mary Christina Wood

“Deserving particular mention is Julia Olson, who is coordinating the worldwide atmospheric trust litigation campaign (through Our Children’s Trust) and whose perseverance and embrace…

— Mary Christina Wood

“These same forces now keep the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from taking bold action to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as our planet heats to…

— Mary Christina Wood