“Outcomes-based governance like the U.N.’s SDGs and ESG opens the door to authoritarianism. It is Satan’s plan,” Utah State Treasurer Marlo Oaks told the GOP delegates.
Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks at the Utah Republican Party election night party at the Hyatt Regency in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Oaks, on March 11, 2023, told Salt Lake County Republicans that corporate ESG standards are part of "Satan's plan.
Oaks then veered into the biblical “war in Heaven” from the Book of Revelation, calling it another “outcomes-based” effort. ESG is a framework used by companies to evaluate their approach to issues like the use of green energy, air and water pollution, diversity in hiring and gender equality. Last year,from the Blackrock investment firm because of their use of ESG in evaluating investments.
“Treasurer Oaks said his use of scripture was an attempt to speak to an audience that might understand the example and illustrate the problem with systems that attempt to push outcomes on everyone. His opposition is to coercion as a mechanism in society,” the spokesperson said in an email.
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