ESG: How Governments Use Corporations to Achieve Their Agenda and Control People

An image from video footage featured in The Shadow State about the ESG industry. EpochTV

Commentary

Politics and business used to be two separate worlds. Politicians are supposed to make laws, and CEOs are meant to make profits, but all that is changing. The EpochTV documentary “The Shadow State” addresses the rising dominance of ESG. Short for Environmental Social Governance, ESG is a business scoring system that unites corporations, governments, and institutions under a woke leftist agenda. It includes the world’s largest banks, investment managers, pension funds, and insurance companies. Driven by International organizations like the World Economic Forum and with Wallstreet at its center, the ESG industry has reached an astounding 55 trillion in assets (it was 19 trillion in 2014). It is projected to nearly double by 2025.

Consolidation of Corporate Power

The film poses the question: will corporations turn into agents of morality and social change? Will Wallstreet be allowed to control and manipulate individual people? Are the days of customers and shareholders controlling banks and tech companies over? Large finance, tech, and media organizations have jumped on board with ESG. For example, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said, “you have to force behaviors, and we are forcing behaviors.”