Editor's Summary: Mary Christina Wood delivered this presentation on February 19, 2008, as part of the University of Montana Wilderness Institute Lecture Series: Climate Change: Moving From Science to Solutions. She begins by describing the urgency of climate change and government's failure to address the problem. She then explains a legal principle that she hopes can catalyze the kind of paradigm shift needed to confront the crisis. Finally, she concludes with a call to citizenship that she hopes her audience will deliver to families, workplaces, churches, and schools.