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Environmental issues in Chile include deforestation, water scarcity, pollution, soil erosion, climate change, and biodiversity loss, especially in its industry-heavy "sacrifice zones". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The country of Chile is a virtual continental island that spans over (2,600 miles) 4,200 kilometers.
Chile began to experience a drought in 2010 and by 2020, precipitation was 20–45% of average nationally and 10–20% of average in the area of Santiago. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] According to René D. Garreaud, of the University of Chile , the drought was the most extreme in the area in over 1,000 years. [ 1 ]
In 2015, 99% of the population of Chile had access to "improved" water, of which 99.6% were in urban and 93% in rural areas, and over 180 thousand people lacked access to "improved" water. For sanitation in Chile, in 2015, 99% of the population had access to "improved" sanitation, with 100% and 90%, in urban and rural areas, respectively ...
La marcha más grande de Chile (literally The biggest march of Chile) was a demonstration that took place in Santiago de Chile on October 25, 2019, as part of the 2019–2021 Chilean protests. It was considered a "peaceful concentration" by local authorities and by the national and international press.
The same survey determined that 35 percent of the nation's Mapuches think the biggest issue for the government to resolve relates to their ancestral properties. [37] The official 2012 Chilean census found the number of Mapuches in Chile to be 1,508,722 [ 38 ] and the 2017 census a total of 1,745,147, representing around 10% of the population.
Chile's privatization of water has led to many environmental problems. [citation needed] Since water tends to flow towards money it is being over-allocated to industries such as mining and agriculture.
On 25 October 2019, over 1.2 million people took to the streets of Santiago to protest against social inequality in what was called "the biggest march of Chile." [32] [33] As of 28 December 2019, 29 people had died, [34] nearly 2,500 had been injured, and 2,840 had been arrested.
In October 1999 Chile introduced "fully-fledged inflation targeting". [13] According to Pablo García Silva, member of the board of the Central Bank of Chile, this has allowed to attenuate inflation. García Silva exemplifies this with the limited inflation seen in Chile during the 2002 Brazilian general election and the Great Recession of 2008 ...