Nine-Year-Old Behind Emotional Environmental Letter To Prime Minister Gets Personal Audience
The inspirational nine-year-old Maltese boy who sent a poignant letter on the island’s destruction of the environment to the Prime Minister got the chance to meet him personally yesterday.
Lovin Malta covered the letter a few weeks back, which then reached the Prime Minister’s office and landed little Thomas a meeting with Robert Abela.
“I met Thomas after he wrote to me about how we can work for a better Malta and a better environment. It was one of the best meetings I had this week,” Abela said in a social media post.
Together, they discussed a number of topics, such as wind farms in the sea, as well as protecting a number of areas in the west of Malta, as well as areas such as Comino and Dwejra in Gozo.
Thomas also presented the Prime Minister with an informative chart on some elements of Malta’s environment, including photos various photos of birds.
This is the letter that landed Thomas a meeting with the PM:
“Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing to you because I love the environment and I think Malta can do better. I am going to write to Bernard Grech and Miriam Dalli as well. I am only nine years old but I have a vision for Malta. It could be the most beautiful country but we are not clean or green at all. I always look out of my window and say is this the country I live in?
I love birds and I know so many lovely people who adore them, and they remind me over and over again about the habitats, not only bird habitats but all animals. Habitats are being destroyed because of all types of pollution and the worst are plastic pollution, gas power station exploding, hunting and shooting, burning fossil fuels and many more.
But most of all you should keep protected Burmarrad, Qammieh, Buskett, Chadwick Lakes, Comino, Dwejra, Tal-Wej and some other places north and south because they are a haven to many animals, especially birds.
You can help the environment but not spend a cent. Please help the environment because it doesn’t only help nature lovers like me and animals it helps you and all your people.”
What do you make of this meeting?
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