Equally, one might say that you don't know how the world works and how these scores will be governed by the few to get power over the many.

No one is forcing you to make decisions based on ESG. There are fund that invest based on ESG. Equally there are funds that don't.

You can also buy whatever stocks and shares you want. ESG does not prevent companies from listing.

If you don't want to invest based on ESG then don't.

Not yet they aren't; wait until governments or other highly influential organisations such as banks decide to direct pension funds and the like to invest only according to certain ESG profiles and give individuals a convoluted and difficult option if they wish to "opt out".

If these concerns people have about ESG are so important, they should be passed at the democratic level via legislation. At least that way, people could debate and change the system as needed. You didn't need ESG to get rid of lead plumbing - just an interested government.

Of course these days, we can only have private power, not public power.

This is also a knee jerk comment that contains no actual analysis and thinking