Malta divenne un deserto nel 2024
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/136358/malta_became_a_desert_in_2024
di Wagamaga
Malta divenne un deserto nel 2024
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/136358/malta_became_a_desert_in_2024
di Wagamaga
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Malta was officially classified as having “arid” climate conditions in 2023–2024, marking a worrying milestone in the country’s ongoing struggle with drought and water scarcity.
According to a new report by the Energy and Water Agency (EWA), the hydrological year between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 was the driest on record. Rainfall levels were so low that the islands temporarily experienced conditions typical of desert regions.
This emerges from the Aridity Index (AI) cited in the MWA’s report. The index shows that in nine out of the last 10 years, the country experienced semi-arid conditions, with 2023-2024 classified as dry.
>Malta was officially classified as having “arid” climate conditions in 2023–2024, marking a worrying milestone in the country’s ongoing struggle with drought and water scarcity.
Desalination seems like the only survival strategy.
Malta is tiny and there are too many people trying to live there. Humans are crazy sometimes. Why do you want to live on an overpopulated rock in the middle of nowhere?
No capital gain taxes >> life.
The one who dies with most of the toys wins.
That was my impression of Malta when I was there in 2019.
nice
I’ve developed a bit of a hobby of using Google Maps satellite view to kind of tour around different cities or countries and learn the geography of areas. I just happened to do a tour of Malta a month or two ago and one of the first things I noticed was a MASSIVE LNG terminal on a peninsula on the SE side of the island.
There are some commercial / industrial buildings with solar panels on the rooftop and even one or two solar panel farms. Some more searching indicates that there might be a law to install solar panels on the roof of large buildings now.
A Times of Malta article says that for 2023, only 11% of Malta’s energy needs were met by renewables (which includes shit like biogas and not just actual green renewables like solar or wind). It also says this is the smallest share in Europe.
Good news though! It looks like in 2028 they’ll begin installing an offshore wind farm with ~60% of the capacity of the LNG plant. It’s a good start, I guess.
We have choices. **As a species**, we have choices about how we use the resources provided by this planet and we continue, overwhelmingly, to make the ***wrong*** choices.
We’re going to continue to see articles like this as a result.
What can we do about it?
*l aqwa fid dinja boys*
Stop with these “nice day at the beach” pictures when you talk about actual climate disaster.
Show the real consequences : farmers facing a sterile land, disappearing rivers, fragile people suffering, frequent fires and flashfloods when it rains.
This picture just doesn’t make sense.
I read “Meta” instead of “Malta”. Still made a lot of sense.