Goodreads asked Andrew Hanson:

How do you get inspired to write?

Andrew Hanson I wrote “Greenies” because of my sense of anger, bordering on hopelessness, at the lack of serious action to tackle the causes of climate change. Yet I wanted to write a novel which would be readable, compelling, and not didactic. Setting it in the near future, in the year 2030, seemed like a way of exploring possible climate impacts, yet in a world which a reader can still recognise as theirs. The disastrous flood of London, which takes place three years before the central narrative, is caused mainly by a spring tide combining with a storm surge, but rising sea levels will contribute to the danger of such an event.

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