Ionuț Iamandi is a Senior Editor at Radio Romania Actualitati, with media experience in several newsrooms in Bucharest (daily Adevărul) and London (BBC World Service, the Romanian office). He is a contributor to Dilema Veche, Historia and Pallas Athena magazines, writing book reviews, comments and pieces on recent history. He published the books ”Hume's Wonderful World. Philosophical quatrains” (2023), "I ran away from communists - just to end up in communism. The story of a refugee from Bessarabia" (2022), "The Chess Players. Short Stories", (2021), ”Inner Weeks. A Coronavirus Diary” (2020) and “Election Year 1946. Romanian Comunist Party in Campaign at Radio” (2019).
2023 showed how serious the climate change issue really is. Although efforts have been made to switch to green energies and reduce emissions, the crisis is far from being resolved.
The recent scandal at the OpenAI company has refueled fears about a potential apocalypse triggered by computers, although for the time being the threat seems anchored in the distant future.
The aggressiveness of Putin’s regime has been described as a trait of the Russian people. The same pseudo-scientific generalizations were also used to describe Nazi Germany.
Populist rhetoric defending “economic interests” and the real economic costs undermine the fight against climate change, fueling climate revisionism.
The heat records of 2023 will likely be broken in 2023, when the effects of the El Niño ocean warming phenomenon will be felt in full.
The record-high temperatures suggest global warming has picked up speed. It could be stopped by curtailing emissions, although other solutions are needed to cool down the Earth.