A much faster way of increasing humanity's problems would be to increase governmental R&D funding, e.g. quadruple the US NSF and DoE budgets. That only takes an

A much faster way of increasing humanity's problems would be to increase governmental R&D funding, e.g. quadruple the US NSF and DoE budgets. That only takes an election or two, plus a year or two for the funding to get transferred to research. Much better than the 25 years for a child to get born, grow up, and decide to go to grad school in an applicable field.