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Happy End: Chile Will No Longer Have A Climate Constitution… For Now

Against all odds, Chile was once again saved from having a new Constitution (12/17/23) soaked with progressist footprints and DNA of the UN’s ‘Agenda 2030’ that also included a climate change chapter. The 1980 Constitution, thus, remained in force.

From Watts Up With That?

Douglas Pollock

Against all odds, Chile was once again saved from having a new Constitution (12/17/23) soaked with progressist footprints and DNA of the UN’s ‘Agenda 2030’ that also included a climate change chapter. The 1980 Constitution, thus, remained in force.

The chances of rejecting the new text seemed to vanish since the most right-wing party (Republican), together with woke companies and unions, called to approve the new proposal even before knowing its draft. The “In Favor” option had thus everything to win: the right, the left and the money. The other option had nothing except courage and awareness to expose the huge threat that the former posed.

The scenario for those who promoted the “Climate Constitution”, Republicans and the center-right (the extreme left didn’t promote anything), was favored by blaming libertarians for “voting the same as the communists” who said they would vote for the “Against” option. It is not clear why that wing acted in such a contradictory manner, since they were more than happy with the “In Favor” option because they would finally achieve a Venezuela-like Constitution and of other Marxist paradises.

The fact is that advocates of the “Against” option called to vote without caring whether the communists agreed with them or not and, instead, to be aware of the text that was being offered to the country in which they saw a socialist, progressist and globalist document. The patriots’ alleged loyalty to the communists turned out to be, apart from false, a weak argument that served, at best, to narrow the difference of a comfortable victory.

In the end, without resources, using only the social media along with the awakening of people’s common sense, conservatives achieved a clear victory of 55.8% against 44.2%, a great defeat for the entire political establishment.

This success, however, did not stop Chile’s journey towards the cliff.

For example, along with the commitment to John Kerry’s “Global Methane Hub” that includes Chile, the US and 11 other countries, Chile also signed the “COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action”, which will soon become an attack on national and Western agriculture and livestock.

In parallel, climate policies in Congress continue to progress. One is the “Energy Transition Law”, that aims to incorporate electricity transmission as a sector enabled for carbon-neutrality, a guise that actually seeks to save European renewable energy companies from bankruptcy. This bill, dispatched by ‘president’ Boric as a matter of urgency, arose from a one-day visit to Chile last June of Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, asking him to “solve the problem”. With this new climate action, electricity rates will continue to skyrocket along with the country’s social and economic crisis, but saving the planet and foreign companies at taxpayers’ expense.

Climate policies of a country that doesn’t exist for the purposes of preventing the climate from changing on the planet, along with a political right on the verge of extinction not quite because of global warming but for its violent turn to the left, are the bitter return to reality after the triumph of freedom against tyranny, hence, with hope of solution.

Is Chile set to adopt a “Climate” Constitution?

Principally, it recognises runaway climate change as an ‘ecological and climate crisis’ that can only be addressed through far-reaching policies and laws. It expands environmental protections and vows to safeguard the livelihoods of future generations.

From  CFACT

Shortly after a well-planned communist coup on October 18, 2019, an event that led to widespread burning, destruction, and crime in Chile’s major cities, President Piñera bowed to pressures being handed to him by the extreme Left. Among the items he offered to change was the nation’s Constitution.

This is how a long process to change the Chilean’s basic political document began. First off, it was not something supported by the people. In fact, 62% of citizens categorically rejected changing their Constitution in an “exit plebiscite” conducted in September 2022. However, just a few days after handing the Left a stunning defeat, a new (and unlawful) effort began. Ignoring the people’s mandate, current President Boric met with then-president Piñera to craft a new constitutional text. This one will end on December 17, 2023, along with another plebiscite.

The new Constitution proposal, drafted by a committee of 24 “experts” and approved by 50 constitutional counselors elected by vote last May, is closer in design to those of communist-led Nicaragua and Venezuela than to the current Constitution, enacted in 1980, which brought Chile prosperity for nearly 40 years. Incredibly, the new Constitution also carries a chapter entitled “Environmental Protection, Sustainability and Development” (chapter XVI) that contains eight articles raising “climate change” to a constitutional mandate — something never done by any nation.

The language employed in the document is as much “vague” as it is “politically correct.” It contains mandates such as “the State will promote justice in environmental matters” without providing a clear definition as to what this means, leaving it to the courts, which are packed with liberal justices, to decide. It will strongly impact industrial development.

The new Constitution also contains this gem: “the promotion of an energy matrix compatible with environmental protection and sustainability.” This will likely be employed to put an end to hydroelectric generation, the most abundant, clean, and affordable source of electricity in Chile. The Left has already succeeded in decommissioning a hydropower plant project called HidroAysén, twice the world’s most efficient, replacing it with a thermo-solar plant 30 times more expensive. Thanks to the new proposed Constitution, renewables will also be imposed and jettison other energy sources such as coal, gas, and oil, making electricity prices, if doing so, dramatically increase together with unemployment, energy, poverty, and the loss of more heavy industries to China.

And then there’s this zinger: “the State will implement mitigation and adaptation measures in a timely, rational and fair manner before the effects of climate change.” This will give the state license to impose climate change measures in a speedy fashion, without much oversight – causing more bureaucracy, more taxes, more regulations, more tyranny, and more misery for a country already impoverished by successive Leftist governments.

In this latest attempt to “transform” the nation, with weak or no opposition from a political right that seems to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, Chile will be irremediably thrown down once again, setting itself up to undergo an economic collapse that will cause widespread devastation.

On October 30, Chile had the chance to put an end to this illegal process — forcibly imposed four years ago — if only 4 out of the 33 right-wing counselors had rejected the constitutional Leftist proposal. Not a single one did. Thus, the last opportunity Chileans will have to reject their own economic death sentence will be via a final plebiscite on December 17. Fortunately, most serious surveys are giving victory to the “reject” option by 51% to 34%. Time will tell if this holds.

If once more the far-Left succeeds, then the times of prosperity when Chile proudly exhibited thirty years of being the world’s top nation in poverty reduction will vanish forever. That, along with the beautiful words uttered by Bill Clinton on the eve of his visit to Chile in 1998 that once upon a time were true:

“Chile is the most precious jewel of the Latin American Crown”.

Douglas Pollock

Douglas Pollock is an Industrial Civil Engineer from the University of Chile.

For almost a decade he has dedicated to study the science and economics of climate change.

As an energy expert, he has been able to prove the irrationality of renewable energies as a means of reducing CO2 emissions, the inevitable increase in electricity costs, the maximum renewable penetration into any grid and the illusion of net-zero emissions in the generation industry.