The problem is to get started we need more scientists. And academia and education right now right now is so horribly broken with perverse anti-incentives that n

The problem is to get started we need more scientists. And academia and education right now right now is so horribly broken with perverse anti-incentives that no young person in their right mind will want to pursue a career in research - they'll go code Ruby instead because they have loans to pay and want a roof over their head. We also want more engineers and other specialists in government - but decades of bureaucratic creep and managerialism on the one hand and neoliberal-driven cost cutting and privatisation on the other have made government, like academia, very unattractive to young smart people. So it's not a question of people already in finance, law or tech startups switching over to fighting climate change - as you said, they aren't in the same skill set. We need to train the next generation to fight climate change across a number of fronts - climate study, geoengineering, energy, transport, flood defense, food production and so on. And right now all the incentives are pushing that generation in entirely the wrong direction.