Intersectional grounding for ESG & DEI…

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PERFECTION STUDIES: CONTINUITY•SYMMETRY•HARMONY GOALS.November 2023
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Pi (π) & Infinity
by Bruce E. Camber

Introduction. Philosophy, psychology, math and science have natural intersectionalites. Most miss how these studies come together and overlap at the largest scale where we engage infinity and, on the smallest scale where we engage the continuity, symmetry and harmony within pi (π). If we assume scale invariance, the inverse becomes a challenge: At the very largest scale we engage π (pi); and, on the smallest scale, we engage infinity. After accepting our limits of understanding, we have a sense that this proposed expansion of the definition of intersectionality may well open possibilities to diffuse conflicts, confusion, and fundamental differences of opinion about the meaning of value. To test our emergent concepts, the very real tensions within ESG and DEI around issues about valuation become the focus of this study.

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG): A long and convoluted history, ESG shares many of the same roots as Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI). And, today, BlackRock1, one of the world’s largest investment firms, is promoting Environmental, Social and Governance and the ranking of our world’s major businesses by an ESG score and standards.

As a result, virtually every day there are new layers of intersectional tensions that need grounding.

DEI. That story goes back to the mid-1960s in the USA with the introduction of new employment laws about affirmative action. Those dynamics are closely studied. Early forms of diversity training followed. In 1989 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw2 introduced intersectionality as a black, female law professor (now at Columbia). She was seeking to define an area where race, class, gender, and other more specific individual characteristics (like a disability) actually intersect with one another. That overlap, intersectionality, didn’t take too many years before it would be used to broaden the scope of ESG and DEI.

Primary problem with ESG and DEI

ESG and DEI: Both are lacking a ground wire or grounding system3 that attaches to core, first principles that are rooted in science and mathematics. The words that define both are so large that political agendas and biases are too easily interjected. It has become a red flag for the more conservative among us and a cause de célèbre for the more liberal among us.

Both groups go in circles, defining quite different circles that rarely talk to each other and hardly understand each other. The two would do better if they were to begin studying the essence of the circle and spheres.

Value deep within the sphere

I have been quietly saying for many years (1971)…

All major domains of human activity — especially Business, Government,  Science, and Religion — are fraught with travail and have been blemished with the worst of human behavior. Notwithstanding, there is a deep ethical bias within science which is also an essential infrastructure of business, and it is the heart of good government and good religion.

Retrieved, November 8, 2023, https://81018.com/values/#Title

That “deep ethical bias”4 declared just above is surprisingly found within a domain of mathematics, particularly the most-ubiquitous, oldest, most-diverse equation in history, pi (π). The most-simple analysis of its qualitative functions goes to the core of our being. It opens the qualitative (the infinite) which preconditions the finite with qualities of continuity, symmetry, and harmony. Here is the heart of order, relations, and dynamics respectively. Those three fundamentals give us our mathematics and sciences. Statements about qualities unaware of these roots lack a kind of dimensionality whereby one can begin to recognize the role of the math and science within intersectional studies.

These embedded links are important to review:

  1. The ubiquitous nature of pi: https://81018.com/starts-2/
  2. Applications of pi at the start of the universe: https://81018.com/starts/
  3. The variegation of dynamics within pi: https://81018.com/challenge/
  4. Review: https://81018.com/instance/
  5. Continuity begins with the Planck Units as infinitesimal spheres filling the universe: http://81018.com/chart/
  6. Infinity as Continuity, Symmetry, Harmony: http://81018.com/csh/

The words, Environmental-Social-Governance, are each good words describing three most important categories of life. Likewise, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion are also good words unto themselves. Each describes qualities of life that are important to most people. Yet, none of the words have initial conditions, implied boundaries and/or necessary values built into them. And, that’s the key.5

The Experts

There are thousands of consulting groups that work within this domain. Diverse leading businesses6 include: (1) Bloomberg, (2) Deloitte, (3) E&Y, (4) IBM, (5) KPMG, (6) MIT, (7) Nasdaq, and (8) Thomson Reuters. They generate many recommendations and reports. Two highly-recognized consulting firms are McKinsey & Company7 (sample reports on ESG and DEI) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)8 (examples of their many reports on ESG and DEI [2]). None of these reports nor the reports from the other eight have recognized the fact that these studies do not have grounding systems, especially in the most intersectional domains. Even with their well-crafted analytics, each application of ESG-DEI opens the door to unintended consequences. Unless set within the basic fiber of spacetime and matter-energy defined by continuity-symmetry-harmony, there is no thrust for intersectional order-relations-dynamics.

Boldly-speculative

At the bleeding edge of studies about intersectionality is the mathematics and science of spin states.9 These writers-research scientists-scholars are from diverse fields and are among the most speculative and bold within their discipline. Although still within an emergent stage of development, most of them struggle to define the deepest harmonies-symmetries-continuities of intersectionality. With recognition of the basics of pi and infinity, they come together to make music. Without those basics, they’ll tend to create chaos. And, without that grounding system, more than confusion, each discipline harbors real risks to be a little like lightning and spark fires and even trigger profound shocks many of which will be fatal.

Conclusions

We can do better. We will do better. When key people of all these businesses and agencies cited begin teaching people how to install intellectual ground wires, by recognizing the fundamental role of continuity-symmetry-harmony, this world will change for the better. It can all happen quite quickly, cheaply, and effectively. Thank you. -BEC

Endnotes & Footnotes
There may not be many because all these points already have pages within this website.

[1] BlackRock. See: Our BlackRock review for more. Also, retrieved from Wikipedia, November 10, 2023: BlackRock ESG.

[2] Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw: Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (PDF), Vol. 1989: Iss. 1, Article 8, 1989
Also see: https://81018.com/crenshaw/ and http://81018.com/intersectionality/

[3] Ground Wire. Retrieved, November 11, 2023, Earthing Systems or Ground (electricity)
A study of the concept of a grounding system has begun as a result of this article. That study will be closely related to the following emergent articles: https://81018.com/grid/ and https://81018.com/spin/ and https://81018.com/new-science/#1a

[4] Deep Ethical Bias. All retrieved on November 10, 2023: [4a] https://81018.com/values/ [4b].https://81018.com/value/ [4c] https://81018.com/dystopian/ [4d] https://81018.com/solipsism/

[5] Keys to open dialogue. These prerequisites come out of our work in June 2023 to focus on the AI leadership and their challenges to understand the core principle to guide AI development. People around the world are concerned about AI evolving as a super-intelligence that decides that humans are unnecessarily slowing down evolution. For more…

[6] Trendsetting businesses: Bloomberg, Deloitte, E&Y, IBM, KPMG, MIT, Nasdaq, Thomson Reuters? Retrieved on November 11, 2023: [6a] Bloomberg, [6b] Deloitte, [6c] E&Y, [6d] IBM, [6e] KPMG, [6f] MIT, [6g] Nasdaq, and [6h] Thomson Reuters.

Also see: BCG–Bloomberg–Deloitte–E&Y-IBM-KPMG–McKinsey-MIT-Nasdaq–Thomson Reuters 

[7] McKinsey & Company: Overviews. Reports: ESG and DEI [2] Retrieved, Nov. 10, 2023

[8] Boston Consulting Group (BSG). Reports: ESG and DEI Retrieved, Nov. 10, 2023

[9] Spin states. Retrieved from Wikipedia November 11, 2023: Spin states
Also, as a result of this posting, the natural spin states within atomic structures is associated with scale invariance and hypothesized to be unique spin states within each of the 202 notations.

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References & Resources
As ESG and DEI are studied, key references and resources will be added.

Many more references come…

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Emails
There will be emails to many of our scholars and business associates about key points. Within the next two weeks there will be emails and direct messages to key people within these twelve organizations (plus to key people who teach and advise them).

18 Nov. 2023, Thomas Ebbesen, Angel Rubio, Gregory Scholes, Strasbourg, Hamburg, Princeton
16 November 2023, Roberto Rigobon, MIT, Cambridge
14 November 2023, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Columbia University, NYC
14 November 2023, Hannah Leach, founder ESG Ventures, London
13 November 2023, Frank Switzer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP), Toronto
13 November 2023, Lars Langusch, HV Capital, Munich
13 November 2023, Laurence D. Fink, BlackRock, NYC

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IM
There will also be many instant messages to thought leaders about these key points.

There will be many tweets like this one:

@Mastercard A weakness within both ESG and DEI investments is their lack of a ground connection to the first principles of mathematics and science. I discuss it on our homepage today. https://81018.com The long-term URL is: https://81018.com/esg-dei/

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Participate

You are always invited. You can help.

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Keys to this page, /esg-dei/

• This page becomes the homepage on early Monday morning, November 13, 2023.
• The last update was November 26, 2023.
• This page was initiated on October 27, 2023.
• The URL for this file is https://81018.com/esg-dei/
• The headline for this article: Continuity-Symmetry-Harmony (CSH) Ground DEI & ESG
• First teaser* is: Re-Wiring DEI & ESG: Earth to Universe.

*Or, wicket, kicker or eyebrow.

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For more, ponder:

  • the core of earth
  • the core of our solar system at the core of the sun
  • the core of our Milky Way.
  • the core of the infinitesimal spheres that bind every unit of spacetime from the beginning of time to this current day.
  • ESG-DEI feels good, sounds good, but it is afloat, rudderless; it needs a grounding system.

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