Obviously I am one of the latter, also an engineer, and I keep up with the trade rags that talk about the actual real technology not the theoretical stuff that still needs to he scaled 5 orders of magnitude. I also happen to believe that too much CO2 is just as bad as too little. We are not close to having too much and the technology will catch up as the need arises. Some basic R&D is still needed, and a big helping of capitalism.
If there is really a dangerous climate problem, the only way it will get fixed is through the free market. The political solution will only be to concentrate power in the hands in some small portion of the elites that all think they are about to take power totally. Sea Level rise is a constant since the end of the Ice Age and is dealt with as it has been dealt with for millennia; people move farther inland . seawalls get built. New buildings are built uphill. All other facets of Climate will be dealt with similarly. The way guaranteed to screw up things, including the climate, is to turn over everything to the experts.