David Siegel – Don’t Reduce Climate Change to a Score

<p><strong>BIO: </strong>David Siegel is an entrepreneur who has started more than a dozen companies. He has written five books on technology and business, given more than 200 professional speeches worldwide, and was once a candidate to be the dean of Stanford business school.</p><p><strong>STORY: </strong>David joins the podcast again, this time around discussing climate change.</p><p><strong>LEARNING: </strong>It’s wrong to reduce climate change to a score. We need a better alternative to the UN’s Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“You don’t have to do anything the way anybody tells you to. Go learn in the most irreverent way possible.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">David Siegel</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p>David Siegel is an entrepreneur who has started more than a dozen companies. He has written five books on technology and business, has given more than 200 professional speeches around the world, and was once a candidate to be the dean of Stanford business school. He is a fintech leader, a leader of the open Metaverse movement, a business strategy coach, and an advocate for the scientific method. He writes and makes videos about climate change at <a href="http://www.climatecurious.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.climatecurious.com</a>.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>David is a previous guest who joined us on <a href="https://myworstinvestmentever.com/ep98-david-siegel-start-ups-should-start-with-selling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ep98: Start-ups Should Start with Selling</a>. In today’s episode, he tells us more about his research on climate change.</p><h2>David’s penchant for climate change</h2><p>David has been conducting research on climate change since 1988. He wrote his first book on climate in 1991. So David is not one of those instant climate experts. In 2015, he decided to really dig into the subject and spent an entire year doing nothin