Packham guest-edits The Big Issue

Environmentalist and broadcaster Chris Packham has brought together powerful voices on climate change in a special Earth Day edition of The Big Issue magazine he has guest edited.

Packham said the magazine was a constant reminder that inequality, and sometimes ignorance and intolerance, remain an “inescapable insult to our intelligence and our alltoo-insular lives”.

He added: “But the reality is simple – any little privilege you might find comfort in now will be gone tomorrow unless we all act to make a difference, a difference there is still time to make. Just.”

Greta Thunberg, Professor Brian Cox, writer Emma Mitchell and former Cop26 president Claire O'neill are among those interviewed for the magazine on sale today.

In an exclusive interview, Ms Thunberg tells The Big Issue that despite the scale of the crisis she remains hopeful, saying: "As soon as we start taking action, there is hope.”