Kyran Fitzgerald: Engineering solutions for global woes

Engineering firms are finding it more and more difficult to recruit the talent they and the planet require to work on sustainable and innovative solutions to the problems that face mankind. Pic:iStock

YOUNG people are particularly engaged with the twin issues of climate change and biodiversity loss and rightly so. It is, after all, their natural inheritance — and that of their likely offspring —which is being squandered.

However, it may not be enough simply to march the streets on behalf of the planet, or to start reining in the consumption that is particularly damaging to the Earth. We in both the wealthy and the less advanced parts of the world are going to have to rely to an increasing extent on people with practical skills in areas such as scientific research and engineering.