The Build, Days 1+2

Earth versus World 1 Minute

Day two of the demolition stage … a brand spanking new machine is busy taking out the vegetation so carefully nurtured by the gardening crew only a few days ago.

Someone could’ve saved themselves a swag of money, time and useless busy work if they only worked together.

When I watch a machine like that at work, I always wonder whether a couple of men on the ground couldn’t do that work more efficiently.

Chainsawing the shrubs, stacking them on a pile or dragging them to a truck. There aren’t any real trees in that section. How can it be cheaper?

Yes. Don’t worry. That was a rhetorical ‘big world’ question. I realise that by the time an employer pays humans their holiday pays, sickness benefits and super, one driver is cheaper than three laborers.

By ‘big world’ I mean the ESG costs as well as just running a demolition company.

E = environmental; S = social; G = governance … I’m still in the dark about the significance of the last one. You?

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Published by Rita de Heer

Writing is what I do. What I think about. What I meditate on. What I dream up. Listen to. Imagine. Sometimes I sleep. Sometimes I eat. And I walk. Pull out environmental weeds. There are a thousand more things I do, though writing comes into a fair few of those things too.

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6 thoughts on “The Build, Days 1+2”

  1. Rita, Governance pertains to how well company do or don’t operate within legal/regulatory systems while being transparent and accountable. Most companies have environmental compliance teams to ensure they operate within local Gov/company requirements. I used to have this job. Both the state and Corporate folks would make “cherished” 😂annual visits during which we’d unlock our credenza and let them sift through all our reports and data, just TRYING to find something amiss. Such joy 😂😎

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    1. Thank you! I wrote a long reply earlier, out on the public post. My password wasn’t accepted three times and then I was shut out. Trying it again here, in my editing arena. So this is the testing testing testing experiment.

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    2. I guess then that ‘governance’ stands for making a double check. I mean, if companies already have environmental compliance teams, and probably also social compliance teams, their governance teams oversee things?

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