SocialFunds.com -- The implications of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are many. As the stock price of BP, the oil and gas company responsible for the disaster, plummets—as of this writing, it has lost more than a third of its value since the explosion that killed 11 workers— and its very survival as a company seems threatened, one such implication is the materiality of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues.