ESG and the elephants in the room
There are more elephants in the room than you imagined! When we unpack climate and ESG, it is too big, so we don’t know what to do. However, this post unpacks the “too big” so that we can individually identify the one thing we can all do that will make a difference. The 1st elephant in the room Never teach an elephant to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the elephant. This elephant represents the big issues: politics, geopolitics, policy, human behaviours, policing, crime, cyber-attacks, climate change, poverty, tax, ESG, economics, capitalism, growth, sustainability, vaccines, circular economy, transparency and equality as examples. They are all so big and complex that we cannot get our heads around them. No one person owns the problem. We ignore those who go on about them often by putting them into the category of philosophies as I don’t understand or know what I can do, believing that my individual actions will make no difference. ...