“The road,” wrote Spanish poet Antonio Machado, “is made by walking.”
Often adopted as a metaphor for pilgrimage and spiritual journeys, it served as a clarion call for Sarah Moring, 25, a climate activist living in Manchester, England.
In September 2021, Moring joined the Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN) — an advocacy community of young Christians in the UK aged 18-30 — on its relay in advance of this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.
Described as “a key moment in international climate negotiations,” COP26 is being held this November in Glasgow, Scotland.
Stretching over 750 miles and cutting through Cardiff, London, and Oxford, YCCN urged participants like Moring to join the crusade for climate justice by walking a portion of the route between the end of the G7 meeting in Cornwall on June 13 and COP26’s opening ceremonies starting October 31.