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TL;DR;
Capitalism was aware of the Y2K bug and took action even if it costs millions.
This is because my colleagues and my friends and I had been engaged in a multi-billion dollar, multi-year, multi-million person, quasi-coordinated project to fix the problem.
There are two obstacles to climate change to follow the same path though:
Responsibility for climate change is sparse and does not benefit an actor in particular if one makes some effort.
Capitalism's secondary tenet, short-termism, doesn't permit it to respond to non-specific risks, even if they're real, because that would require committing wealth to an effort from which 1-year or 5-year returns can't be measured in terms of greater wealth.