Contributors

‘Very few people know much about their Christmas tree,’ says French freelance journalist Clément Girardot. ‘When you think about Christmas trees, you don’t think that it’s an industry with many similarities to the coffee or chocolate industries, where raw material is extracted in one country and processed in another with a lot of inequalities involved, but this is the case.’

‘The creation of hundreds of millions of refugees has been an anticipated consequence of climate change for decades,’ says writer and author Chris Fitch. ‘But does it do a disservice to people in developing communities to suggest that, at the first sign of environmental change they’ll pack up and leave home? There are many reasons why such a mass movement of people might not unfold on a large scale.’

‘The Thames plays a rich and vibrant part in our past as well as in the 21st century, for me this makes it one of the world’s most fascinating living monuments,’ says Ann Morris. ‘It’s home to me, and millions of others living within reach of its banks, as well as to an extraordinary collection of wildlife from Britain’s rarest bumblebee to some of the largest aggregations of wintering waders and wildfowl in the UK.’