British bureaucrats' resistance to change has been adapted by businesses today to avoid taking action over climate changeThe 35 British Standard Objections to Change is a list I first came across in the 1980s while preparing training materials for the Local Government Training Board. I've recently updated it to show how similar attitudes prevail today in the way busineses resist taking action on climate change.
The 1980s list starts "Our work is different", and ends "We haven't got money for this at present". On the way it covers such gems as We've been doing it that way for 25/15/10/5 years, We've never done it before, We tried it once before, No-one's ever tried it before, Nothing new about it, We've been doing it all the time, It's so completely new to us, The boss/committee/staff/clients/treasurers/personnel won't like it … and so on.
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