In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.