Goodbye 2022, all the inhabitants of the earth, the eight billion earthlings have celebrated the New Year and left behind them a complicated year. Indeed, the year 2022 started with an economic crisis and the war in Ukraine and the pandemic that continued to disrupt the summer vacations of 2022.

In Oceania, the party had started earlier, in Australia, Sydney was one of the first major cities to ring in 2023, reclaiming its title of “New Year’s Eve Capital of the World”.

With more than a million people attended the launch of more than 100,000 pyrotechnic devices in Sydney Harbor.

By early afternoon, thousands of people were occupying the best spots to watch the show. “It was a pretty good year for us, getting rid of COVID is great,” commented David Hugh-Paterson, 52, sitting in front of the Sydney Opera House.

“If we can get everyone to join in the celebration and look forward to the coming year with renewed optimism and joy, then we’ve done it,” said fireworks organizer Fortunato Foti.

At the end of the year 2022, two kings left, on Thursday, December 29, 2022, the one of soccer, the Brazilian Pele (82 years), and Saturday, December 31, 2022, the former head of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI (95 years).

In 2022, global warming has not calmed down and neither has the growth of the world’s population: the milestone of eight billion people was passed in November 2022.

This year saw the “Great Quit”, a phenomenon of employees leaving their jobs after the pandemic, with a slap in the face at the Oscar ceremony and the ruin of billionaires, swept away by the cryptocurrency crash.

The most serious being, the return of war in Europe with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Already, nearly 7,000 civilians have been killed and 10,000 wounded, according to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.