Chicken or Egg?

ESG, SDGs or DEI?

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a reoccurring theme on these pages.  However, I have often cited ESG or Environmental, Social and Governance as the bigger issue.  It may be due to me learning that a policy driving much of the madness we have been living with for decades has a name and that “ESG” was it, before I learned of SDGs.  However, as with ESG, there was plenty of evidence that SDGs existed, I just was not yet knowledgeable that there was a cohesive system and that it had a name.

ESG being used to control first how corporations use their money with the “promise” of expanding into individuals financial lives, it seemed to me that this was either the umbrella structure under which SDGs and DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) or the foundation for them.  Of these two possibilities, I felt it was the former.   Now I am not sure that either of these two options are correct.

As far as I can tell, ESG is the brain child of the guy in charge of BlackRock financial group.  At the least, he is a mega pusher of ESG, coercing every single large corporation and a good many municipal governments to fund his pet social engineering projects or get blacklisted in the financial sector.  Apparently, I am not the only one to learn of ESG and understand the implications of it as it has been increasingly reported that fund managers are dumping ESG funds.  I know some that see this as the final victory over this illegal (1), de facto social credit system.   Two things should dispel this belief.  First we have statements from BlackRock saying that the ESG brand is tainted and that they are just going to rebrand it.  Second we have the information from these two screen shots.   

Accounting firms are still “selling” it.

While ESG seems at least on the surface to be the initiative of a super villain financier, SDGs are a UN initiative.  I have been posting, with the help of readers, pictures and screen shots of SDG ads and statements from all over the place in Japan.  Before I was alerted to SDGs, I found the internet awash with ESG statements from big names in many sectors of the Japanese economy but little in the way of public statements.  Japan Times pushes both ESG and SDGs but otherwise if you don’t know to look for it, you are not likely to stumble across it.  If you only know that it exists and its name, ESG, it is easily found.  How about DEI?

A quick Google search today turned up a mighty long list of various corporations in Japan and their DEI statements.  As with ESG and SDGs, DEI is easy to find as they are usually the only English letters in a sea of kanji, furigana and katakana.  I did see the katakana rendering of “diversity” in at least one university’s webpage instead of DEI.  Thus, I suspect that all three of theses are more widely spread than a quick scan for groupings of three english letters amongst Japanese script would betray.

Digging deeper, I find an English entry that states that US corporations spent an estimated 8 billion dollars on diversity in 2003.  I graduated college in 2000 and have heard so many PSAs on “Our strength and our progress depend upon our diversity” while in college that I still remember it after all these 23 years.  (I just found it on YouTube to verify, I had it correct.)  So this push for what they consider diversity, lefty loonies outnumbering by far all others on university faculty does not violate their idea of diversity, is not new.  But I have yet to find the putrid well from which it sprang.

Regardless of the structure; are SDGs and DEI 2 of the three legs of the ESG platform, is ESG the foundation for these plus at least another or are three separate, mutually supporting monstrosities? Individually they are all bad news.  Collectively, I can think of nothing more terrifying.

As stated in my earlier posts on SDGs, these are not as they seem at face value.  They promote sexualizing young kids, removing what parental rights we have left, anything and everything to beat the existential threat of anthropogenic climate change, all the maniacal covid mitigation measures (masking, lockdowns, remote “learning” and vaxxes vaxxes vaxxes galore!) and “equity”.  What could possibly be scarier than that?  ESG supporting these.

While I believe strongly that all that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, I also believe that evil learns and adapts while the good understand only half of the sailor’s axiom that once graced my grandfather’s billiard room; pray to heaven but pull (“row” for you sand crabs) for shore.  They forget we have a role to play, that God helps those who help themselves.  ESG not only punishes those who provide support to those who oppose SDGs, DEI and ESG, but also those who do not actively support these.  We are not even allowed to be the “Good German”, Germans who did not support the reich but kept silent.  We must be dues paying members or else we are shut out of all we know as human society.  Want to buy a new home, car or send your child to Hillsdale college?  Ain’t happening unless your ESG score is high enough and it won’t be unless you donate to or at the very least are doing business with those who support BLM, Antifa and NOT doing business with anyone who does not support these and others they choose.  Almost two years ago, we ran into this in real life.

While on a city hike sponsored by JR East we went through a new shopping center under the tracks.  My oldest child needed to use the restroom but could not as these were QR Code only restrooms.  To get the QR Code to unlock the door to the restrooms you first must have an idiot phone and make a qualifying purchase with a qualified merchant within the shopping arcade.  This system exists, not just in communist China, but also democratic (HA!) Japan.  It can easily be employed not only for restrooms but anything; supermarkets, ATMs, gas pumps.  This can be set to anything as permitting parameters such as purchasing Dr. Fauci’s or Krause Schwab’s newest book, a minimum donation to BLM, allowing you kids to go on an overnight trip with pedophiles, anything.

This is part of how they will force us to do as we are told or starve, or freeze to death.

Act accordingly.

(1).  Yes, it is illegal as it violates the fiduciary responsibilities of investment managers who are legally bound to invest only in a manner to increase the value of the portfolios they oversee, baring illegal activities of course, and not use their investors funds for their own, private, pet projects.