LA 2028 begin hunt for $1.5 million Sustainability VP. Wouldn't it be better to just donate the $1.5 million to enviromental cha

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Los Angeles 2028 begin hunt for sustainability vice-president

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Organisers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics have begun the hunt for a vice-president of sustainability for what they have described as...

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The thing is, planning sustainability for an event as big as the olympics is much more important to the organization and takes years of planning to execute correctly. It dosent matter to the planners about random rainforests but rather the direct carbon footprint of their event. Also, considering the olympics budget this is quite literally pocket change and a much needed position in todays society.

1. Yes, I know it's pocket change. I don't think you get what I'm saying.

2. Wouldn't they have a lower carbon footprint if they just gave $1.5 million away to some environmental charity? If recycling an extra 5,000 bottles at 50 venues doing squat compared to that? I think not but don't know.

Sustainability planning is a major field, especially when it comes to events as big as the Olympics. Lots of logistics, planning, etc. goes on, and sure, they could just donate a million and a half to charity but that would leave a lot of key steps in the process undone. The ONET listing for Chief Sustainability Officers shows a median wage pretty much in line with the opening for the Olympics job:

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11-1011.03 - Chief Sustainability Officers

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This page also gives a bit more information about what they actually do. Sure, skimming through it a lot it reads like just a bunch management fluff (which is essentially true of any c-suite/management position) but it also mentions more concrete stuff like scheduling facility usage, preparing financial documents, and analyzing data for project feasibility.

The Olympics are a huge logistical undertaking. Takes a lot of hands to make it happen, and a lot of those hands are bound to be well paid

I’m an LA native and resident. LA is a crumbling city that resembles an open-air sewer. The roads are disintegrating. It is covered with government-sponsored advertising. Traffic and drug laws aren’t enforced. If I run from my house I hit encampments of bums in every direction, one of whom spat on me and attempted to stab me with a kitchen knife. Another of whom bashed my girlfriends car with a cinder block while she was driving… No consequences in either case. Our installed politicians just keep lining their pockets and making it worse. Loads of folks leaving my neighborhood — three houses on my block now sitting empty for a year after being purchased by Chinese investors.

All of which to say ‘Sustainability’ will be the least of the problems for anyone doing events in LA. I reckon they’ll make sure that instead of having no drink straws, they will offer big plastic lids or useless paper straws — that kind of thing. The Olympics is just a big corporate and nationalist scam anyway. You’d have to be a real fool to welcome its corruption and congestion… an orgy of mindless corporate propaganda co-opting athletes.

But who really cares, I’ll probably be somewhere better by then anyway…

LA28 placed a ton on emphasis on sustainability (generally, not necessarily energy) in their winning bid. This includes things like carbon neutral footprint, but also limiting the building of new event infrastructure, leveraging the opportunity to improve LA's public transportation, etc. Without knowing the specific scope of the role, my guess is there's a focus on impact lasting well past the end of the Games in Summer '28.

Yeah I don't think you want an actual honest discussion based on this.

LA28 has to pay a very high salary since they can't promise it's a permanent job after 2028. It's not easy to find some one who can accept global visibility and severe criticism from up to 8 billion viewers. For sustainability reasons, USC wants NBC Burbank to make L.A. the one city for the Summer Games which would then launch long term sustainable venues across L.A., OC, at UCLA, Pepperdine, Stanford and Cal Berkeley. In 1984 Cal opted out of the Summer Games, Stanford had Soccer, Pepperdine had swimming, etc.

I mean, it's the same as homelessness administrators making $250k. There's several on staff making that money and their job is figure out how to solve homelessness. One solution is cut their pay to $65k and give the difference to homeless shelters that provide beds and food.

Unstoppable. Billions want to live in the sun and surf of L.A. Homeless included.

Sounds like a pretty cush job to me.

Once the games are over, you're out of a job.
It will be several years beyond that before the full depth of the sustainability promised at LA 2028 is even realized.

So basically you'll get paid like a king, don't have to do much of anything since you'll really have no metrics or accountability and by the time anyone realizes you didn't do your job, you've well done moved on to something else.

Go to meetings, lie your way through them, make crap up (Oh, I'm meeting with X company on this date for...). Come the games, throw up some recycling containers around the venues, use some natural gas or electric powered buses to get people around and no one will know you didn't do much of anything else in 5+ years on the job!

Over 100 years ago L.A. set the tone for the Olympics by dominating the medal stand. Sustainability, Reusability, Recycling, Reuse is high up on the priority list of advanced nations. LA2028 will continue to set the tone for the Olympics for the next 100 years.

I moved away from the LA area because of the disaster that is unfolding and most people's willingness to just go along with it. The homeless and crime problems as you mention are just out of control. Businesses are fleeing due to overregulation. Housing is way to expensive because it is impossible to build anything. Infrastructure from roads, to electricity, to water management are all a mess. Despite this you pay more in taxes than pretty much any where else because of transfer payments and general political corruption.

But hey we've got our sustainability officer so we can virtue signal at everyone else and preach about the amazing California policies that has hundred of thousands of California's moving to other states each year.

Since I assume they mean "environmentally sustainable" and not "financially sustainable":

1. no in-person spectators; online and TV only (think of the carbon footprint reduction for that!)

2. re-use facilities as best they can from 1932 and 1984 OG

3. Pay me a one-time salary of $250 k for this advice and I won't ask for anything more.