Letters to the editor - April 1, 2022

Focus on climate change

In the run-up to the recent general election, we heard of programmes and promises about which the public is greatly concerned but hardly anything about global matters which, in the long run, may define the quality of our life even more than a lot of immediate local concerns.

This is because global concerns are not seen as affecting our health, our nation’s economy, our nation’s security etc. and most of us are not interested in the world as a whole.

I don’t think we heard much about climate change. Some politicians themselves may be highly concerned about it but it is not something which will gain them votes. And this is because the average person in Malta (and in the world) is not educated enough about the horrific danger that climate change is heading us to.

Of course, by now most people know about it but just as a bit of information lost in the deluge of so much more, and more interesting, news.

The United Nations’ general secretary, António Gutterez recently told a big gathering of highly influential VIPs: “We are sleep-walking towards catastrophe” (Times, March 22). Millions of young people, who are more than convinced that unless we take the proper...