British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.