Climate Change
A New Mexico Religious Pilgrimage Rode a Global Wave Hoping for Ripple Effects for the Environment
While the faith-based marchers failed to push the Clear Horizons Act through the state legislature, it spread prayers for the climate from ranches to oil fields to wind farms.
Oil and gas wells might seem unusual sites for religious pilgrims, but on January 12, three faith-motivated environmentalists set out on a 328-mile trek from Carlsbad, New Mexico, that would see them slogging on foot past fossil-fuel developments, through remote ranch lands and deep into the desert on their way to the state capitol in Santa Fe.
A New Mexico Religious Pilgrimage Rode a Global Wave Hoping for Ripple Effects for the Environment