‘Get Thee Behind Me, ESG’: Biblical Investors Disavow ESG

A bible sits placed behind a chair in Iglesia Cristiana Bethel, in Tijuana, Mex., on Feb. 5, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The embattled environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement has another new foe: Inspire Investing, a Christian financial firm that renounced the term in an Aug. 18 blog post from CEO Robert Netzly.

“The hard left wants to say that ESG can only mean their view, in typical cultural Marxist fashion,” Netzly told The Epoch Times in an Aug. 26 interview.