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What's the best way to know what quotient of your investment money comes from "good" (e.g. enviourmentally friendly) sources vs "bad" (e.g. oil) sources? The en
by tw1010 8y ago
What's the best way to know what quotient of your investment money comes from "good" (e.g. enviourmentally friendly) sources vs "bad" (e.g. oil) sources? The enviourmental industry tend to be really good about going deep with where energy is coming from (looking many layers deeper, not allowing certain certificates if e.g. solar panels are constructed in an enviourmentally unfriendly way). Is there something similar in the tech investment world? Is there some index or something you can look up (some independent investigator) to ensure that you're minimizing taking money from actors who has gotten it in a questionable way (or who will use their returns to e.g. invest in coal plants)?
Don't tell me it's an impossible task. Again, the energy industry tends to be pretty good at this. There are ways to know that the energy you're buying is clean not just on the surface level (but many layers down the pipeline of influences).
- TheCoelacanth 8y ago"Environmentally friendly" vs. "environmentally unfriendly" is surely not easy to measure, but it's going to be a cakewalk compared to measuring "good" and "bad".
- tw1010 8y agoI'm not expecting anything rigorous, of course. A first approximation is fine. There are some smart hardworking academics out there, surely they've thought about this question in some book somewhere. This what humanities excels at.