If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping to prove when I attended a congregation of catastrophists at Bondi Beach one recent Saturday morning.
The protest was one of 57 being held at Australian beaches that day, all part of the Fight for the Bight campaign to persuade Norwegian mining company Equinor not to explore for oil 375 kilometres off the South Australian coast.
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