Economics
How Climate Change Primed Chileans for an Uprising
Disputes over dwindling supplies of water helped spark a popular revolt against the country’s neoliberal economic model.
A banner reading “Help us protect the lagoon” is seen near the dried Laguna de Aculeo in Paine, about 43 miles southwest of Santiago, on Feb. 12.
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Scientists and academics from around the world gathered at Chile’s Museum of Fine Arts on the evening of Oct. 18 for the close of a three-day conference on climate change in a nation that’s endured a decade-long drought. Under the glass dome of the elegant Beaux Arts building, Stanford researcher Susanne Moser warned in a keynote speech that policies to cool a burning world must foster community or fail.