--- title: How Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change description: Why we need hurricanes to fight climate change, debating feminism as movement vs marketing, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-03T16:01:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:02.459Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/ 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 Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change 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 Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 3, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 3, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Find out why we need hurricanes to fight climate change.**](http://pratt.duke.edu/news/hurricanes-key-carbon-uptake-forests) By Ken Kingery at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering **2\.** [**Can feminism fight becoming a marketing ploy?**](https://newrepublic.com/article/132991/feminism-sale) By Sarah Jaffe in the New Republic **3\.** [**What’s the biggest obstacle for self-driving cars? America’s shabby roads.**](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-autonomous-infrastructure-insig-idUSKCN0WX131) By Alexandria Sage in Reuters **4\.** [**How can blind people navigate the ocean of digital content? This entrepreneur has a plan.**](https://www.techinasia.com/innovision-braille-me) By Meghna Rao in Tech In Asia **5\.** [**Move over, offshore wind power. Here comes offshore solar.**](http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/solar-power-heliofloat/) By Kelly Hodgkins in Digital Trends  [_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/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/"},"headline":"How Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change","datePublished":"2016-05-03T16:01:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:02.459Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/","keywords":["Innovation","climate","Beyonce","Solar Power","blindness","self-driving cars"],"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/4316295/hurricanes-climate-change/","name":"How Hurricanes Help Fight Climate Change"}}]}] ```