--- title: How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires description: How to fix the fight against wildfires, why it's time for a carbon tax, ending cable boxes rentals and more. canonical: https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T17:01:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:23.066Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 19, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 19, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how to fix the fight against wildfires.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0218-feinstein-pimlott-fire-budgets-20160218-story.html) By Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Ken Pimlott in the Los Angeles Times **2\.** [**With oil prices at historic lows, it’s time for a carbon tax.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/time-for-a-carbon-tax-by-kemal-dervis-and-karim-foda-2016-02) By Kemal Derviş and Karim Foda in Project Syndicate **3\.** [**Let’s stop renting our cable boxes.**](http://recode.net/2016/01/27/its-time-to-unlock-the-set-top-box-market/) By Tom Wheeler in Re/Code **4\.** [**American schools are resegregating.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/10980856/new-york-city-schools-segregation) By Amy Piller in Vox **5\.** [**For his nominee to the Supreme Court, President Obama should look beyond Harvard and Yale.**](http://about.bgov.com/blog/the-next-supreme-court-justice-looking-beyond-harvard-and-yale/) By Dan Glickman in Bloomberg Government  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/"},"headline":"How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires","datePublished":"2016-02-19T17:01:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:23.066Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/","keywords":["Innovation","Supreme Court","Schools","Wildfires"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4230359/fight-against-wildfires/","name":"How to Fix the Fight Against Wildfires"}}]}] ```