“Let’s address the elephant in the room,” said the sustainability expert. I turned my head around. No actual elephant in the room. I understood what he meant, but what an odd expression to mention towards the end of a conference! If there was a real elephant in the room, it would be the first thing we would talk about: Why is it here? How did it come? We would not just sit and patiently wait for the expert to address it while the elephant walks freely and the smell of wildness invades our noses. English is indeed a confusing language.
Ana Gomez is a sustainability blogger based in Geneva who enjoys writing fiction about travel, social problems, and ecology, mainly in French. Find Ana at asemaphore.wordpress.com, on Twitter @AnAlexGomez, and on Instagram @csrinfluencers.