How climate change is changing our country
During the last couple of years, our world has been shifting and alternating. Countries have dried out, seas have changed, birds have disappeared, all of this because a phenomenon called global warming.
A feature of this global warming is climate change, which is one of the main causes that our world is dying, and Chile is not an exception from it.
Our country is the ninth most vulnerable country to be affected by climate change. Although Chile is a low emitter of carbon emissions, climate change affect us in many different ways.
In Antarctica, glacial are melting faster day by day which affects animals that live there, such as penguins, polar bears, seals, walrus etc. Scientists are very worried about this situation, as Claudio Bunster explains us.
“I have been to the Antarctica every year by 15 years, so I have been a witness of climate change and how this has affected our country, if you take a picture of a glacial ten years ago, is a whole different picture, it is really sad to see it”
Beside, the Antarctica, our whole country, specially the south of Chile, have suffered the consequences of shifting rainfalls, and unexpected rain in a determined time of the year, thousand of people have been affected by this, having to leave their homes, and after the rain, they have to face the consequences which is to loose everything you have, your home, your belongings, everything.
While the south is full of rain, in the north the story is completely different; the Atacama Desert is expanding at an amazing rate, worrying habitant in the region, because plants and animals are dying, and that is their main source of income.
Also, the famously known “El Niño Current” is changing our county; its frequency is much higher than in other years and it will affect us on many different aspects such as, food production, water supply, the tourism industry, social-economical development.
Chileans are hopeful about this situation, and expect that it will decrease with the measures the government has taken. “I think very positive about the future, its true, now we are in trouble, but our country can do many thing to prevent it, so im hoping than in only a couple of years thing will change” Camila Vera, a student at Universidad del Desarrollo Says.
