{"id":10978,"date":"2021-08-13T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.adrem.ro\/the-society-of-irresponsible-consumption-is-coming-to-an-end-somewhere-a-danger-lurks\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:47:52","slug":"the-society-of-irresponsible-consumption-is-coming-to-an-end-somewhere-a-danger-lurks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/the-society-of-irresponsible-consumption-is-coming-to-an-end-somewhere-a-danger-lurks\/","title":{"rendered":"The society of irresponsible consumption is coming to an end. Somewhere a danger lurks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Article written by Corneliu Bodea, CEO of Adrem for republica.ro<\/em> The end of a hot summer in Bucharest, where nothing announces how autumn is looming, except for the burnt leaves that still hang desperately on the branches waiting to give way to the persevering wind of the next season. Something reminds me of my childhood years on Cercului Street, of the silence of the scorching summer Sundays when the weather was freezing hot and the air was pressing with all its weight. Today, everything seems more agitated and more willing to break the monotony, boredom seems to me an almost lost memory. Holidays are in full swing and you feel it in the morning traffic, in the ease with which you book at a restaurant and in the deserted streets on weekends. Life moves forward pushed by the inertia of the main needs and resembles from year to year, despite technological developments, exceptional events and calls for change. It is only more and more sophisticated, feeding our insatiable expectations for better, more, more often. On Monday, August 9, the UN published a report by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on climate change, the previous one being published in 2013. It issued an extremely harsh warning about the situation in which our planet has reached and the alternatives we have available. If the 2013 report stipulated that global warming is “… most likely caused by human activity…”, this report uses much more categorical terms. Although the document is issued by an intergovernmental, therefore political, collective, scientists from over 150 countries (including Romania) participated in its elaboration, and the terminology has been the subject of long debates. The position of scientists is even more categorical regarding both the role we play in generating this situation, as well as the alternatives available and the risks attached. We are unwilling to give up what gives us pleasure, no matter how illusory it may be, and very willing to give ourselves extenuating circumstances when we know within ourselves that we have made a mistake. We very easily declaim attachment to policies against climate change by consuming more and more resources. The awareness that the real action is mostly personal and that changing our consumption habits and somehow our lifestyle is the appropriate response to such a struggle, creates a fantastic resistance to the inertia of habit and apparent needs. It is in human nature and in the mentality of all of us that is more difficult than changing such prehistoric fabrics. In this way, we are heading towards a moment (2040-2050) when things could become much more serious in that global warming could get out of control and maintain itself through an effect well explained by specialists. The consequences could be catastrophic for humans both through the direct risk due to extreme weather phenomena, but especially through unimaginable economic effects. We have at our disposal 20-30 years of pragmatic action that should start from each of us in the directions: responsible consumption of resources (energy, food, etc.), adoption of energy-efficient solutions through the equipment used, supply from alternative renewable energy sources, adoption of energy-efficient forms of transport, long-term use of consumables or equipment, abandonment of the use of plastics, other non-or hard-to-degradable materials, etc. Read more on republica.ro<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article written by Corneliu Bodea, CEO of Adrem for republica.ro The end of a hot summer in Bucharest, where nothing announces how autumn is looming, except for the burnt leaves that still hang desperately on the branches waiting to give way to the persevering wind of the next season. Something reminds me of my childhood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12238,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions\/12238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremengineering.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}