Why Thousands Of Pagans Are Standing Up For The Environment

In the months leading up to last year's Earth Day, a group of roughly 50 pagans gathered in a closed Facebook group to draft a collective call to action. On April 22, 2015, they published the "Pagan Community Statement on the Environment," which framed climate change as a global moral dilemma to which pagans and other people of faith must respond.

A year later, the statement has garnered more than 8,000 signatures, and its creators hope it will reach 10,000 signees for this year's Earth Day on Friday.