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The Importance of Corporate Governance
A healthy corporate governance function can make or break progress in the E and S realms. It seeks to understand how well leadership manages relationships with stakeholders. These rapidly changing market and non-market conditions have created the ESG landscape as we see it today.
In this 171st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.
This week we discuss why businesses aren’t acting like businesses. Why did Fox fire Tucker Carlson? Why did Anheuser-Busch hire Dylan Mulvaney? Why did Twitter of old throw people off for engaging in WrongThink? Why does YouTube continue to strike people for talking to the wrong people—people like democratic candidate for president Robert F Kennedy, Jr? Part of the answer is in the ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) agenda. ESG is social credit for corporations, and it is being used by Goliath to facilitate a new kind of fascism.
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Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Tucker Carlson’s Keynote address at The Heritage Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/live/ebG2POkoHgU
CFI on ESG: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/esg/esg-environmental-social-governance/
The Domestication of City Dwellers (on 15 Minute Cities): https://open.substack.com/pub/naturalselections/p/domestication
***** Timestamps:
(00:00) Welcome
(07:17) Sponsors
(17:55) Dyslexia
(20:40) Tucker Carlson
(43:57) Goliath and trans rights
(51:12) Twitter, YouTube and Goliath
(55:45) ESG
(01:10:12) Is good global governance possible?
(01:12:50) Something is on the march
(01:18:00) RFK Jr on Tucker Carlson
(01:29:00) Wrap up
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