“I do believe that there is a place for a space program of some kind,” cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein tells zakcheneyrice, but “that means thinking holistically about the impact on our ecosystems and the people who are in those ecosystems'
was talking about growing okra on Mars. “I was like, ‘No, Nikki, no!’” Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist, told me, laughing. “‘We can’t grow okra on Mars! That will completely contaminate the environment!’” But the more she thought about it, the less Prescod-Weinstein saw an actual game plan for sustaining human life on the red planet than a sketching of ideals with Mars as Giovanni’s “canvas.
In 2022, less than a month after SpaceX launched 52 new satellites into Earth’s orbit, Prescod-Weinstein published an essay incalled “Becoming Martian,” a withering assessment of capital-driven space conquest. Elon Musk, she writes, “claims that he is planning to take humanity to Mars” just as Earth is collapsing under the “centuries of white supremacist, capitalist colonialism” that made his fortune possible.
If this outlook seems grim for someone with her head among the stars, she got it honestly. Prescod-Weinstein’s mother, activist Margaret Prescod, raised her daughter in East L.A. in the 1980s as “a campaign kid,” bringing her to many of the meetings and demonstrations she helped organize. Prescod-Weinstein’s father, Sam Weinstein, was a labor organizer and the son of activist Selma James and stepson to C.L.R.
This peculiar alchemy is how you get a lifelong Trekkie who never really wanted to leave Earth. “My relationship withfuture,” Prescod-Weinstein says. “I didn’t want to go to space in our present.” Instead, she has always approached the cosmos as a “mathematical problem” — something to be worked out on paper, indoors, in community with other people. So she spends a lot of time thinking and writing about the nature of that community and what its behavior says about its values.
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