Mary Evelyn Tucker

Mary Evelyn Tucker presented on The Emerging Alliance of Religion & Ecology. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. She also teaches religion and ecology at Yale.

• View Mary Evelyn’s book Ecology and Religion here at this link.
• Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology website
• Forum newsletter sign up
• Online courses in Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community
• Journey of the Universe multimedia project. Website for Thomas Berry who
  inspired the film. Click here to access a flyer with access to the film and podcasts.
• Plenary Panel: The Role of Religion . . . Climate Change and Equality for Women HD (featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker and President Jimmy Carter)
  • From Mary Evelyn Tucker,
    • This was in 2014 when he was 90 years old!
    • At 24 minutes Carter starts talking about climate change. He critiques climate deniers…
    • Then again at 43 minutes he speaks of energy shortage as central to climate issues.
    • At 47 minutes Gus is mentioned.
    • Carter also notes he has met with President Yi four times and that China will be critical to the future of climate issues. Concludes at 51 min with more comments on China. Picked up at 54 with Ecological Civilization
    • At 1 hour in he speaks about ANWAR
    • 1:05 speaks against building the Keystone pipeline
    • 1:11 Earth Charter and peace
    • Focus on nuclear issues
    • Oak Ridge peace action intervention
    • $1 trillion of nuclear weapons refurbishing
    • 1:17 US in violation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Geneva convention rights overlooked; violated many of our international treaties since 9/11
    • 1:19 When asked about his optimism he concludes with a lot of realism that changes may not happen
    • “I’m not optimistic; I’m just a prisoner of hope.” Desmond Tutu