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In face of global ecological crisis and accelerating climate change, what can ordinary citizens do? Wood urges a revolutionary legal approach to hold governments accountable for protecting the planet’s climate system. Based on the fundamental public trust doctrine, “Atmospheric Trust Litigation” seeks to fulfill our moral obligation to the beneficiaries of the public trust – today’s youth and tomorrow’s citizens. (More information at: http://ourchildrenstrust.org/)

Environmental law has failed us all. As ecosystems collapse across the globe and the climate crisis intensifies, environmental agencies worldwide use their authority to permit the very harm that they are supposed to prevent. Growing numbers of citizens now realize they must act before it is too late.

Mary Christina Wood is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the school's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at UO and the author of Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age.

This event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Corvallis, the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University, 350Eugene, the Pacific Green Party, the Corvallis Environmental Center, the Corvallis Citizens Climate Lobby, FUMC Natural Step Ministry, Corvallis Move to Amend, and the Community for Earth Social Justice Committee of the First Unitarian Church of Portland.