Thursday, 11 July 2024

My interview with Chris Packham

It was a pleasure and privilege to interview Chris Packham for New Humanist magazine. Packham’s energy is infectious and inspiring. He’s in a fight to save life on earth and he’s unstoppable.

We talked about his activism, how attacks on him only fuel his determination to fight harder, his autism, and never winning the approval of his parents.

We also discussed how climate activists are being treated in the courts, and since this article was published, Cressie Gethin (the 22 year old student who Packham met and gave evidence for in a previous court case) has just been sentenced to four years in prison for her role in helping to organise the Just Stop Oil protests on motorway gantries.