But Shell's chief executive admitted that the oil sector had its own credibility problem, enhanced by the fact that too many energy industrialists had been slow to acknowledge global warming.
I'm not saying that we Greens have all the answers, just that so far we have put more time into thinking about it – and economists and industrialists are increasingly coming around to our way of thinking.
Doherty had played in a string of cult Scottish bands, including shoegazing industrialists The Twilight Sad.
Most Indians identify celebrity with Bollywood actors, but Hello! said it hoped to change that perception by also focusing on industrialists, socialites and leaders in other diverse fields.
Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
Another of Goldsmith's targets was big dams, which he saw as spreading poverty by flooding the lands of the poor for the benefit of wealthy industrialists and exporters.
Reck concentrates his fury on German industrialists for supporting Hitler and, tantalisingly, gives special attention to IG Farben, that complex that drew its workforce from the neighbouring Auschwitz,.
The former head of GE South America is on the SalaUno board and they frequently have management meetings with leading industrialists and business people, as well as placements from MBA students from Harvard and Princeton.
In India there is a lot of talk that the next generation of hereditary capitalists, after studying abroad (usually in America), might be more interested in becoming rock-climbers and rappers than industrialists.
Like other industry representatives, Mr Ackermann is careful to avoid implying that industrialists should make foreign policy.
A delegation of South Korean industrialists that visited Kiev earlier this month seems to have left disillusioned.Mr Kuchma is under growing pressure to get things fixed.
