We can’t know the percentages, but I suspect a lot of climate disaster deniers simply can’t react any other way, for a number of different reasons. Combine denial of disaster with an inability to admit you were wrong, and presto, you get Business as Usual.

IF – big if – some shitbag CEO had full knowledge and real understanding that he was personally involved in killing the planet and indirectly all life on earth, you can just jump right back to those same defense mechanisms and find he was probably expecting some hail mary science to save the day eventually.

OOPS