Part III establishes the baseline against which all subsequent scenarios are evaluated. It does not yet introduce political change or alternative governance pathways. Instead,…

An impossible object, built from sentences. Every joint is locally correct. The figure cannot exist. Drawn in code by Claude (Anthropic) at my…

This chapter defines the methodological constants that structure the remainder of this book. These constants are not empirical claims offered for validation, nor normative…

A note to the reader: It is time to return to our strengths! This blog post discusses religion and climate change on two levels that need to be clearly distinguished. First, I argue that religion…

A system can be described without being understood. When people talk about pressure, they often imagine something overt and intentional—a demand issued, a rule imposed, a vote taken, a punishment threatened. In…

Part II: The Analytical Foundation. If Part I establishes what the anti-ESG ecosystem is and how pressure enters it, Part II explains how that pressure actually moves. This section provides the analytical…

There was a House of ancient name    that stood beside the fen,and all the scholars in that House    were sons of wealthy men. And this was said in every street    and cried at...

This chapter explains how anti-ESG pressure becomes operational. It traces the path by which opposition moves from rhetorical positioning into institutional constraint, altering...

Kristina Wyatt is a good friend of mine and recently became the General Counsel of The Conservation Fund. We were both together at a small private sustainability gathering a few...

The story most readers think they know—ESG rises, ESG overreaches, ESG collapses—sounds tidy and is therefore tempting. But it mislocates the object. ESG is not the system this...

I dedicate this book to the most amazing woman I know in this world: my wife Anne Laurin Eccles. We met on a blind date 43 years ago and got married one year later to the day. We...

There is no single event which launched the Anti-ESG campaign which led, after only six years, to a robust Anti-ESG Ecosystem. The ecosystem is the subject of my book and what...

Dear All, I had a little hiccup with Substack this morning and the wrong post went out. I will be posting the one about the anti-ESG ecosystem book on Sunday. The one I just sent...

Earlier this week I published Stories I Won’t Remember Writing by Claude (author) and me (editor). In my Substack post I mentioned that I had asked him to write me a process memo...

Last week I told a story about companies. The ones with the best AI models tend to guard them; the ones playing catch-up tend to give theirs away. Where a player sits, I argued,...