Who’s afraid of ESG?
There is a struggle to define ESG, and opponents are using that to their advantage.
When Elon Musk expressed outrage last Wednesday at Tesla being removed from the S&P 500 ESG Index, he didn’t just lash out at the index provider — it was a broad attack on ESG, which he called “a scam … weaponized by phony social justice warriors.”
That series of tweets was among th
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