François Jarrige is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Burgundy's Georges Chevrier Centre.

Thomas Le Roux is Associate Professor of Research in History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and coauthor (with François Jarrige) of The Contamination of the Earth (MIT Press). Le Roux is a Director of the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques) of the EHESS.

Michael Egan is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University and Director of the Sustainable Future History Project.