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Is ESG Signalling Civilisational Decline? With Jeet Sidhu

Peter McCormack
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SHOW NOTES: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcas... In this interview, I talk to Jeet Sidhu and we discuss whether the promotion of obviously deficient ESG standards is a signal of a wider societal malaise: decivilisation, overregulation, political incompetence and consistent policy failures. Is human flourishing on the ropes? THIS EPISODE’S SPONSORS: Gemini - https://www.gemini.com/ Cake Wallet - https://cakewallet.com/ BlockFi - https://blockfi.com/peter Pacific Bitcoin - http://pacificbitcoin.la/ Ledger - https://www.ledger.com/ Compass Mining - https://compassmining.io/ BCB Group - https://hubs.ly/Q011cb730 TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:29 The climate change debate, and inertia caused by policy 00:12:30 Decivilisation: loss of accumulated knowledge and overregulation 00:23:55 The right amount of regulation 00:41:03 The absence of competence 00:51:40 ESG origins; commercial elites versus political elites 01:02:42 Where ESG has …...more
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Is ESG Signalling Civilisational Decline? With Jeet Sidhu
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2022Jul 22
SHOW NOTES: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcas... In this interview, I talk to Jeet Sidhu and we discuss whether the promotion of obviously deficient ESG standards is a signal of a wider societal malaise: decivilisation, overregulation, political incompetence and consistent policy failures. Is human flourishing on the ropes? THIS EPISODE’S SPONSORS: Gemini - https://www.gemini.com/ Cake Wallet - https://cakewallet.com/ BlockFi - https://blockfi.com/peter Pacific Bitcoin - http://pacificbitcoin.la/ Ledger - https://www.ledger.com/ Compass Mining - https://compassmining.io/ BCB Group - https://hubs.ly/Q011cb730 TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:29 The climate change debate, and inertia caused by policy 00:12:30 Decivilisation: loss of accumulated knowledge and overregulation 00:23:55 The right amount of regulation 00:41:03 The absence of competence 00:51:40 ESG origins; commercial elites versus political elites 01:02:42 Where ESG has gone wrong 01:11:46 The nuclear argument; failure of social policy interventions 01:22:40 Externalities of energy production 01:37:38 Social risk in the human-flourishing debate WHERE TO FIND THE SHOW: → My website: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/ → iTunes: https://apple.co/2OOlzVV → Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ygc4W1 → Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2IQO8fX → SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/2CGSVQR → YouTube: https://bit.ly/3nyi9Ez → TuneIn: https://bit.ly/2ywystr LISTEN TO OLD EPISODES: → By guest: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/guests/ → By topic: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/topics/ → Transcriptions: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/transc... SUPPORT THE SHOW: → https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/sponso... → Become a Patron:   / whatbitcoindid   → Subscribe on iTunes → Leave a review on iTunes → Share the show out with your friends and family on social media → Drop me a line on hello@whatbitcoindid.com WHERE TO FOLLOW ME: → Twitter:   / whatbitcoindid   → Medium:   / whatbitcoindid   → Instagram:   / whatbitcoindid   → Facebook:   / whatbitcoindid   → YouTube:    / whatbitcoindidpodcast   → Website: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ → Email list: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/subscr... LEARN ABOUT BITCOIN: → Step by Step Guide: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/beginn... → Training: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/training/ → Resources: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/resour... #Bitcoin #Finance #Economics **** “Nick Szabo has this concept of social scalability, we may come from different areas and have totally different interests, but we can both use the internet and we can both use Bitcoin; there’s no part of using Bitcoin that requires you to embrace my values.” — Jeet Sidhu In this interview, I talk to Jeet Sidhu and we discuss whether the promotion of obviously deficient ESG standards is a signal of a wider societal malaise: decivilisation, overregulation, political incompetence and consistent policy failures. Is human flourishing on the ropes?
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Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is a framework that was established by the UN in coordination with financial institutions in 2004. It was an attempt to expand the boundaries of the Friedman doctrine, which limits the social responsibility of businesses to increasing shareholder value. ESG essentially seeks to introduce altruistic goals for businesses. The business community's reaction has been both rational and ironic: it has sought to use and capture ESG to maximise profits for shareholders. According to Bloomberg, ESG is the fastest growing asset management class, which is expected to exceed $50 trillion in value this year. Yet, according to EY, ESG is confusing, opaque, and subject to rampant greenwashing. Is this exploitation of a worthy initiative an isolated anomaly that can be corrected? Or, is it evidence of a wider and more malevolent decline in society? The reality is that this isn’t the only major fault within our systems. Everyone is aware of the soft corruption of competence and the hard corruption of honesty. These have cascaded and infected our institutions. We now live in a world that has exploited and tainted progressive language: selfish designs are hidden behind worthy declarations. We have rejected hard truths in return for expedient fiction. To what end? Are we more resilient? Do we have more efficient systems? Is society fairer? Seemingly not. This seems like an existential decline. Now is the time for honest new ideas.
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