Environmental activist: we must cut back on the use of fossil fuels, or climate change will be catastrophic CEO of Shell Oil: What? Why? What is wrong with fos

Environmental activist: we must cut back on the use of fossil fuels, or climate change will be catastrophic CEO of Shell Oil: What? Why? What is wrong with fossil fuel? Why are you attacking me? What evidence do you have that lets you use words like "catastrophic"? And, uh, what about the economy? The workers? ---------------------- Moral of the story: sometimes very high status people get defensive.