Elon Musk has faced many threats to humanity, but he could be in for his biggest challenge yet. Elon recently took the world by storm when he tweeted he is increasingly convinced that corporate ESG is the devil incarnate. Simply put, an ESG score is a measure of a company's long-term exposure to environmental, social, and governance risks that are frequently ignored during traditional financial evaluations.
These risks include issues such as energy efficiency, worker safety, and board diversity, all of which can have serious financial ramifications. A high ESG rating indicates that a company manages its ESG risks well in comparison to its peers, whereas a low ESG rating indicates that the company has a higher unmanaged ESG risk exposure.
Elon took to Twitter to express his frustration with the news that his company had dropped out of the S&P 500 ESG index.
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Edward Snowden: Wir haben ein Recht darauf, zu erfahren, was uns angetan wird und was unsere Regierungen in unserem Namen tun. "Heute sehen wir jemanden, der aufgestanden ist, um dieses Recht zu verteidigen ... zu einem extremen Preis, und es ist Zeit für uns, seine Rechte zu verteidigen. Was wir hier erleben, ist ein Mord."
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ÜBER EDWARD SNOWDEN:
Edward Snowden ist ein ehemaliger Geheimdienstmitarbeiter, der über fast ein Jahrzehnt der CIA, NSA und DIA als Fachexperte für Technologie und Cybersicherheit diente. Im Jahr 2013 enthüllte er, wie die NSA, ohne den Verdacht auf jegliches Fehlverhalten, private Aufzeichnungen von Milliarden von Menschen beschlagnahmte, was zu den erheblichsten Reformen der U.S.-Überwachungspolitik seit 1978 führte. Er hat Auszeichnungen für Mut, Integrität und öffentlichen Dienst erhalten und wurde von „Foreign Policy“ als weltweit führender Denker des Jahres 2013 bezeichnet. Heute arbeitet er an Methoden zur Durchsetzung von Menschenrechten durch die Anwendung und Entwicklung neuer Technologien. Seit Februar 2014 ist er Teil des Vorstands der „Freedom of the Press Foundation“. Er wurde dafür mehrfach von nichtstaatlichen Organisationen ausgezeichnet und für den Friedensnobelpreis nominiert.
Noam Chomsky: "Well, Julian Assange committed a major crime. He acted as an honest journalist. Can't have that. There are things that systems of power want to be concealed from the population. Assange violated that. He brought to the general population information that they have every right to have and that power systems don't want them to have. Information about war crimes, for example. That's a crime. You have to be punished for that. So he's been kept in conditions of virtual torture for six years now. First isolated in an apartment, the Ecuadorian embassy is a small apartment. I visited him there. He had fewer rights than a prisoner on death row who can at least walk outside and see the sun; not Assange. Then the British put him in a high security prison for the crime of not paying bail. The UN Rapporteur on Torture simply described this as torture. He is personally frankly destroyed. Now he's facing extradition to the United States where he could spend the rest of his life, such as it is, in a high security prison. Well, that's punishment for a major crime. You don't tell citizens things they ought to know, but the powerful don't want them to know. And the failure of most journalists to defend him is outrageous. They're the ones who should be right in the front defending him. Some are, very good ones, but too many are not. It's a real scandal. Also a scandal in Australia. He is an Australian citizen. Australia should have been pressing hard for him to be released to Australia at the very beginning of this. Everyone in the world is afraid of stepping on the toes of the United States. Might as well face it the world is, you know, international relations specialists can publish their essays, but the fact is that the world is run very much like the Mafia. If the Godfather lays down orders, you better follow them or you're in trouble. We see this all over. Like take the Iran situation. The United States pulled out of the joint agreement, the nuclear agreement, in violation of Security Council orders. It imposed very harsh sanctions to punish Iran for the fact that the United States is violating the agreement. Europe doesn't like it. Europe opposes the sanctions and it's been spoken out strongly against them, but it follows them. It adheres to them. Because you don't anger the Godfather. Pretend whatever you like, but that's the way the world works. Same on the Cuba sanctions; 60 years of torture of Cuba. The whole world is against it. You look at the UN votes, the 184 to 2, United States and Israel, but everyone adheres to it. The same reason; you don't anger the Godfather, he has plenty of weapons to punish you. More weapons, thanks to Putin's stupidity."
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