Holtzbrinck Lecture

The Nature of the Future

We live in a physical world transformed by human actions. Increasingly, we are confronted with their unhappy consequences: climate change, species loss, degradation of ecosystems. Should we intervene again? Should we try to counteract the effects of our previous interventions? In this talk, Elizabeth Kolbert discusses possible interventions, which include genetic engineering of endangered species and solar geoengineering.