{"id":8142,"date":"2022-07-28T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2022-07-28T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:04:08","slug":"esg-gas-and-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/07\/28\/esg-gas-and-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG, Gas and Grain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is any school focused and committed enough to talk about ESG \u2013 environmental, social, and governance issues \u2013 with its students? \u00a0 Probably not. \u00a0Many universities will, of course, especially business \/ management departments. \u00a0I wondered about this as I read that Tesla has been turfed out of\u00a0Standard and Poor\u2019s ESG index. \u00a0See Greg Barker's account in UnHerd<\/a>. \u00a0The S&P Index is, notionally, a home for companies dedicated to excelling in environmental, social, and governance issues. \u00a0Given that Tesla was replaced\u00a0in the index by the petro-giant\u00a0Phillips 66<\/a>, you have to wonder how bad its it's eco-crimes must have been. \u00a0In response, Elon Musk\u00a0called<\/a> ESG \u201ca scam\u201d. \u00a0The\u00a0Economist<\/a> has a podcast about it.<\/p>\n

I read that the Ludwigshafen plant of German chemical behemoth, BASF, uses about 50% as much gas as Denmark, and more than the whole of Belgium. \u00a0Most of this gas (which conveniently for the Germans the EU designates as a green fuel) comes from Russia. \u00a0I wonder what German students are learning these days about Mrs M's discredited international trade policy. \u00a0Inevitably this has a long compound name which now has had to have\u00a0angst<\/em> inserted into it.<\/p>\n

Living the sheltered life I do it has taken me a while to catch up with the idea of gaslighting, but I'm now up to speed. \u00a0It's important to distinguish this concept from actual\u00a0gas lighting<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0I think I last came across this in practice in the mid 1970s in the White Horse<\/a> pub in Beverley (known as Nellie's)\u00a0which then had no electricity. \u00a0As dusk arrived, one of the three elderly siblings who owned the place came and turned the ceiling gas tap on and then went away. \u00a0The gas hissed above our heads. \u00a0Some while later (it seemed a long time), she came back and lit it. \u00a0There was a noisy \"whoosh\". \u00a0I asked about this odd practice and was told that since town gas had been replaced by North Sea supplies, the delay was to allow the gas to travel the 40 odd miles from Scarborough.<\/p>\n

Can you tell the difference between barley and wheat? \u00a0There are indications that the BBC can't as pictures of barley were used to illustrate the deal with the Russians to allow shipments of wheat to leave the country to feed the world. \u00a0Ukraine grows a lot of barley as well, but that's mostly for animal food (70%), with most of the rest going for beer etc. \u00a0 \u00a0 Maybe the BBC should be putting its graphics teams through the new GCSE natural history when it's up and running. \u00a0As for wheat and barley, one's got whiskers \u2013 but which one ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is any school focused and committed enough to talk about ESG \u2013 environmental, social, and governance issues \u2013 with its students? \u00a0 Probably not. \u00a0Many universities will, of course, especially business \/ management departments. \u00a0I wondered about this as I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}