Wake-up call I refer to the editorial ‘Malta’s war on nature’ (April 16)and Madeleine Gera’s letter (April 17). Our incessant ‘development’ and its attendant pollution from dust and concrete – itself a disastrously polluting material – not to mention the particulates clogging our air from traffic, is short-sighted and idiotic. Readers may be interested in a paper from the Annals of the American Thoracic Society – ‘COVID-19 pandemic, a wake-up call for clean air’. It is ironic that while, on one hand, we may be risking public health and economic recovery by courting the vital tourist dollar, we then proceed to kill the goose laying the golden egg by uglifying everything and destroying assets such as Ġgantija.