
“You Can’t Say That In Corporate America!”
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The ESG mafia is coming for your First-Amendment rights.
In fact, they are already here. They have been here.
Already, tech companies, in bed with the state, tell us what we can or can’t research and publish, and soon: What we can or can’t think.
Maybe it’s already happened to your own business.
If not, get ready.
Companies can now get slapped with crushing fees for their words. They can also expect their capital to disappear if they don’t bend the knee. According to Zach Gregario, CPA and CFO of Spaceport America, companies on the ESG list hold more than $35 trillion in funds. (That’s trillion with a T.)
All that money only goes to companies that submit to ESG.
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Meanwhile, rather than letting markets decide which companies should succeed or fail, elite bankers and CEOs now make decisions based on politics. What you say and do determines whether your business lives or dies.
Then there’s Greenwashing.
Cynical companies enjoy financial spoils to appear “green,” even if they aren’t. To understand the hypocrisy on display, consider Tesla. You’d think a company pushing EV cars to fight “climate change” would be an ESG darling.
Think again.
S&P took Tesla off its vaunted ESG list after CEO Elon Musk criticized the Deep State for pushing lockdowns and other COVID tyranny.
Meanwhile, Exxon Mobile still qualifies for an ESG ranking though its environmental record is suspect at best. The company is responsible for a number of massive oil fires and spills, creating true environmental hazards.
What about Amazon?
How is it all environmentally friendly, warranting a favorable ESG rating? Ever think about all those plastic/paper packages deliveries (producing 465 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021 alone)? Amazon could create its very own Garbage City. And yet, they are doing just fine with its ESG ranking.
Returning to free speech considerations, George Orwell warned in 1984 that whoever controls language controls the culture. That’s why we’re seeing such an aggressive war on words in America and around the globe. Revised definitions hinder our ability to tell the truth, and in the process, reframing reality.
Worse yet, while some people think ESG promotes investing in companies possessing laudable environmental and humanitarian practices, this is not the case. In reality, ESG creates segregation, inequality, and division in both the market and culturally. At the same time, progressive agendas profess to move us forward when really, they are taking us back.
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In one interview, onetime presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy argued the ESG model undermines the discourse so essential to maintaining our republic. He asserts,
This model sent a signal to everyday citizens that their voices did not matter in answering the political questions that we ought to settle in a democratic society through free speech and open debate, whether or how to address systemic racism or climate change or whatever…These questions are important enough that everyone’s voice and vote count equally. Just because I was a biotech CEO or a fund manager or whatever didn’t give me more authority on those questions.
But in 21st Century America, you really do get to have more authority—if you express the “right” viewpoints. Speak out against the ESG cabal and you might find yourself without a voice or even a business.
It’s getting harder to take a stand against ESG. But take a stand we must. My coauthor David Prescott and I are doing just that. Together we wrote Creative Destruction: How ESG Mandates Are Destroying Capitalism, Costing You Money and Wrecking America (soon to be published by Greenleaf.)
For now, I encourage you to do your research into ESG and fight back against this toxic ideology poisoning our businesses and our lives.
Only we can stop this.