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…