My wish list for 2023 – Lawrence Zammit
From the various bits of news I read in the last two weeks, these three caught my attention.
First, a study published by JGR Oceans shows that the Adriatic Sea and the Aegean Sea have risen by eight centimetres over the last two decades. Since 1989, ocean warming and land ice melting have driven sea level rise by an average rate of 3.6mm a year in the Mediterranean basin.
Second, Times of Malta reported that Infrastructure Malta cordoned off a road in between quarries in Mqabba that is at risk of collapse as it investigates “unexplained deterioration” in its foundations.
Third, the head of the International Monetary Fund stated that for much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth, the US, Europe and China, are all slowing down simultaneously.
One may ask what these three developments have to do with each other and what they have to do with my wish list for 2023. I need to state that I am calling it my wish list as most of the good intentions, resolutions and to-do lists made now are likely to be forgotten before the end of January.
What links these three developments together is their application to our country.
How will the...