ESG is, in fact, social credit scoring
You thought this was only a Chinese form of totalitarianism. I am here to tell you that they're planning to force it on you too.
From James Lindsay's Twitter stream, choice quotes from an explainer on ESG (as usual, archived below):
Remember: the purpose of ESG / social credit scoring is to force you to conform, or make you poor and miserable if you refuse. The people implementing ESG have no trouble admitting openly what their intentions are.