Disney's ESG History
Tracing Disney to the Obvious Conclusion: 2004
It is excellent that more people are becoming aware of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), with a major recent contributor being Midnight’s Edge, who has now published several videos explaining ESG and incorporating ESG into its explanations of the decisions driving movie studios. Few people with significant subscriber counts have approached this, and Regime media has continued with its almost total information blackout.
This latest Midnight’s Edge video is noteworthy and is a good view for those unfamiliar with ESG:
“The Little Mermaid UNDERPERFORMS, Indiana Jones FLOPS, as Stakeholder Capitalism DESTROYS Disney”
[May 28th, 2023]
(I will restate and develop here a comment that I left under this video.)
A Quick Aside
I have been reviewing movies and writing for more than 20 years, and in that time nothing has affected movies more than ESG. Star Wars: Episode VIII (2017) was a huge wakeup call for me that this writer’s strategy was formulaic, entirely intentional, and artificially funded. I had a general sense well before 2017 that slave morality was permeating culture (and how could one miss the slow shift from “empowerment” to resentment?), but to see that Disney had been totally owned was eye-opening. That is, there is a difference between recognizing small production movies with insane politics and seeing a mega-corporation using the same exact talking points. While my articles on the subject are little more than Cassandra’s Complex broadcasting given my limited reach, on SubStack I have pointed out ESG’s hiring practices here, Budweiser’s use of ESG hiring in their marketing VP here, and an overview of ESG’s connection to cinema here.
A Simple Truth
People speculating over meme charts of deep state control apparatuses need merely look at the above ESG graphic published by asset managers cooperating with the United Nations.
The bottom line is that ESG is a trillionaire asset manager and government infiltration program which uses the same rules as the 2008 collapse's "too big to fail" logic but on all corporations — 2008 itself largely being a result of the 2004 launch of this program, given that the same offenders of the 2008 collapse launched ESG. The “catch” for government subsidies and investments from "stakeholders" is that all ESG corporations must adopt the same "Global Citizen" culture, which means releasing propaganda which undermines the sovereignty of Western nations. That may seem like a leap to the unitiated, but this is economic and cultural warfare sold globally to CEOs and politicians from within a clubhouse of deceived and deceiving oligarchs whose administrative positions and delusions of cosmic anointment tell them that they must necessarily be masters of the universe. The strategy of “problem-reaction-solution” works just as well on these CEOs, who believe that the solution to climate issues is totalitarianism with them in charge. Perhaps many of them do not fully realize that they are being cast out disposably as sheep amongst the wolves, not having the wisdom to know the consequences of their deeds and—given so many warnings issued to them—not having any claims of innocence.
A Brief History of Disney and ESG
And as a minor correction for the video, Star Wars: Episode VIII and Kathleen Kennedy do not predate Disney's ESG reporting.
Many corporations pre-adopted ESG under the name of "Sustainability" reporting. "Sustainability" is itself a Venn Diagram of the factors of Environmental, Social, and Economic/Corporate Governance (i.e., "sustainability" reporting is near-synonymous with ESG, ESG being an intentional empowerment of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)). So, in the case of Disney, while their "ESG"-branded reports begin around 2018, the exact same sustainability reports existed as "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) or “Corporate Citizenship” reports as far back as 2016 (on the Disney ESG portal) and even 2008 (from an article linking to Disney’s first CSR for 2010 and Bob Iger’s statement that CSR began in 2008). Still further, "sustainability" and CSR reporting was pre-dated by and concurrent with "Global Citizenship" goals, which, again, are the exact same thing (Environmental, Social, and Economic goals). Disney began this Environmental, Social, and Economic strategy around 2007 with its "green makeover", which was pushed in part by The CHEJ, an environmental, social justice, and LGBTQ2S+NAMBLA Group backed by the Rockefellers.
And the source?
This can always be traced to the launch of the ESG formula in the 2004 "Who Cares Wins" report, issued by the United Nations and backed by about 20 trillionaire asset managers. This unassuming 59-page report represents trillions of dollars in assets committed to a massive reformatting of the world economy and culture. To many of the procedural bureaucrats who implemented it, this may well have appeared to be little more than a greasing of the wheels so that corporations could function on the same frameworks worldwide, but, in practice, copy&pasting corporate governance across the world gives totalitarian oligarchs Ice-Nine.
In short:
• Disney's ESG period (2019 – today) {2022, 2021, 2020, 2019}
• Disney's CSR period (2008 – 2018); Kathleen Kennedy hired in 2012; {2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008} {Most backups here}
• "Who Cares Wins" (2004); UN issues a statement with 20 asset managers, formalizing ESG into an actionable scheme.
When looking at popular media of today, it is important to realize that we are looking at the fruits of economic warfare formalized in 2004, though, of course, these plans pre-date the economic engine of asset managers forming this anti-competitive pyramid scheme and protection racket.