{"id":287595,"date":"2023-11-11T20:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287595"},"modified":"2023-11-11T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:27:53","slug":"is-chile-set-to-adopt-a-climate-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287595","title":{"rendered":"Is Chile set to adopt a \u201cClimate\u201d Constitution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Principally, it recognises runaway climate change as an \u2018ecological and climate crisis\u2019 that can only be addressed through far-reaching policies and laws. It expands environmental protections and vows to safeguard the livelihoods of future generations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From \u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly after a well-planned communist coup<\/a> on October 18, 2019, an event that led to widespread burning, destruction, and crime in Chile\u2019s major cities, President Pi\u00f1era bowed to pressures being handed to him by the extreme Left. Among the items he offered to change was the nation\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>This is how a long process to change the Chilean\u2019s 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 \u201cexit plebiscite\u201d<\/a> 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\u2019s mandate, current President Boric met with then-president Pi\u00f1era to craft a new constitutional text. This one will end on December 17, 2023, along with another plebiscite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Constitution proposal, drafted by a committee of 24 \u201cexperts\u201d and approved by 50 constitutional counselors<\/a> 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 \u201cEnvironmental Protection, Sustainability and Development\u201d<\/em><\/a> (chapter XVI) that contains eight articles raising \u201cclimate change\u201d to a constitutional mandate \u2014 something never done by any nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The language employed in the document is as much \u201cvague\u201d as it is \u201cpolitically correct.\u201d It contains mandates such as \u201cthe State will promote justice in environmental matters\u201d<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Constitution also contains this gem: \u201cthe promotion of an energy matrix compatible with environmental protection and sustainability.\u201d<\/em> 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 HidroAys\u00e9n, twice the world\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there\u2019s this zinger: \u201cthe State will implement mitigation and adaptation measures in a timely, rational and fair manner before the effects of climate change.\u201d<\/em> This will give the state license to impose climate change measures in a speedy fashion, without much oversight \u2013 causing more bureaucracy, more taxes, more regulations, more tyranny, and more misery for a country already impoverished by successive Leftist governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this latest attempt to \u201ctransform\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 30, Chile had the chance to put an end to this illegal process \u2014 forcibly imposed four years ago \u2014 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 \u201creject\u201d option by 51% to 34%. Time will tell if this holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If once more the far-Left succeeds, then the times of prosperity when Chile proudly exhibited thirty years of being the world\u2019s 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<\/a> that once upon a time were true:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChile is the most precious jewel of the Latin American Crown\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Douglas Pollock<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Pollock is an Industrial Civil Engineer from the University of Chile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For almost a decade he has dedicated to study the science and economics of climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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