Mary Christina Wood

“The thing that you have to understand about nature and natural law is, there’s no mercy…. There’s only law. And if you…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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

“Present levels have reached 400 parts per million,”

— Mary Christina Wood

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Mary Christina Wood