They have to dump net zero climate goals because they aren't actually happening, period. Doesn't matter how much even blackrock wants to will it into being, it won't happen.

The environmental parts of ESG isn't actually the bad part because most analysts just went with whatever the value was anyway and companies printing money from O&G didn't really care if they weren't listed because they were still printing money.

The real harm of ESG comes down to Diversity and Inclusions. Companies hiring women for the sake of meeting ESG targets. It is causing immense damage to society as a whole socially. Oppressing men and unjustly elevating women when women are hypergamous to begin with. The result has been absolutely disasterous for male-female relations.