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‘Climate change is going to cull us as a species’: folk hero Peggy Seeger on Bob Dylan, the ultimate love song and touring at 90

The musician and activist answers your questions about her marriage to Ewan MacColl, being the inspiration for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, and her mother’s legacy

I can only tour because I have my crew – my sons Neill and Calum, my daughter-in-law Kerry Harvey-Piper and an excellent sound engineer, Stefan Care. It’s a fantastic country and has some amazing people in it, doing unbelievably brave things which we don’t see on the news, like the takeover of town hall meetings by Democrats in Republican states. Bernie Sanders and AOC [Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez] are amazing people, and they’re doing what I was talking about doing in music – not accepting what was being pumped into us – but Trump has so much power.

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