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Tesla produces equal or more Scope 1 and 2 emissions than GM
“On scope one and two, for example, Tesla has the same or even more emissions per unit volume than do GM and Ford.”
Medicare going cash-flow negative will end excess rents for healthcare monopolies
“And I think that trades over because Medicare is going to go cashflow negative in the next few years.”
ESG rating agencies frequently disagree on companies' actual ESG performance profiles
“Even the ratings agencies themselves often don't agree on whether a company is a good ESG company or a bad ESG company.”
Corporate social ESG data is self-reported, unaudited, and chronically stale
“Social is much more difficult today. Let's start with the fact that the data is self-reported, unaudited, and stale by the time you get it from those corporates.”
PwC found one-third of fired CEOs were ousted for ethical lapses
“PWC had a report out, I don't know, maybe it was six months ago and said that a third of all the CEOs that had been laid off in a prior year, it was due to ethical lapses.”
Legislation will eliminate surprise billing profits for physician practice management businesses
“And conversely, companies that are, have been earning excess rents, I'd say some of the physician practice management businesses where they've benefited from surprise billing, you know, that's now Looks like it's going to be legislated away.”
Davis: IPCC estimates at least $2T yearly needed in clean energy
“The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells us that we need two trillion a year, at least, invested in clean energy systems to have a chance of staying below one and a half degrees C of warming.”