What’s the Best Tool We Have to Stop Environmental Disaster?

At this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of scientists, academics, and filmmakers what humans have in our arsenal as a species to combat environmental catastrophes. “On one level, we can’t stop environmental disaster,“ says Kathryn Sullivan, the under-secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere. “I would argue at our peril do we try to stop things like hurricanes, because they play an integral role in making the overall ecology and environment of the planet function.“ Other panelists includ