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Although the scientific bases
of man’s interference in the
climate have been known since
the 19th century, it was not
until the
second
half
of the
20th
century
that
precise
measurements of CO2 in the
atmosphere
were
made,
and
the first global models were
developed.
Although
some
governments
knew
about
them,
they
did
not
act,
probably because the period in
which these consequences would materialize differs from the political processes
and projections. However, scientists continued to work, and in the late 1980s,
the testimony of Carl Sagan and James Hansen preceded the creation of the
United
Nations
Framework
Convention
on
Climate
Change
and
the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In Chile, things were slower. When the Third IPCC Report was published in
2001, the findings, warnings, and conclusions went practically unnoticed in the
media; the report's content was not newsworthy of being broadcast. Things
changed when the Fourth IPCC Report, published in 2007, was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize, along with former United States Vice President Al Gore,
who had visited Chile in May of
that
year.
Finally,
the
organization of COP25 in 2019,
which would be held in Santiago
de Chile, catalyzed the issue of
climate change in the media, and
today, it is not easy to find any
social or political actor who does
not include it in their speech.
In
my
opinion,
there
are
no
“environmental
problems”
but
rather social problems in which
the
environment
plays
a
fundamental
role.
This
Forest fire summer 2023, southern Chile