Holly Jean Buck

Holly Jean Buck is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on public engagement with emerging technologies. Her books include After Geoengineering (Verso, 2019) and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough (Verso, 2021), and she has written for publications like New York Magazine, Noema, Jacobin, Compact, Dissent, The New Republic, and MIT Tech Review. She works as an Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo and was a 2024-25 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow at Harvard University, working on a book about how rural communities engage with future technologies. She is also a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s seventh assessment report and has published in scientific journals like Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, and Nature Sustainability. She holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University, and a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University in Sweden.