Fear of a Dead White Planet (Duke University Press, 2025) asks:

How does one study when the planet is on fire? It tracks how planetary-science frames are enmeshed in the longstanding projects of White Supremacy, settler colonialism, and epistemological violence. Calling for unlearning and joined-up study, the collective reclaims terraforming from off-earth engineering schemes to think through how our more modest efforts to study differently are also world-making and world-breaking.

The More Worlds Collective is:

Joseph Masco, Samuel N. Harper Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Tim Choy, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

Jake Kosek, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

M. Murphy (Red River Métis), Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Data Justice and Science and Technology Studies at the University of Toronto