In January, Full Ecology went to Chile. In Santiago, we had the chance to sit down so Mary could speak with two Chilean professionals - friends who share a passion for the environment.

Paola Molina Venegas is a lawyer and judge. Much of her practice involves social justice issues. Alongside that work, she has, in recent years, become deeply interested in the wellbeing of the environment.

Guille is a professional photographer and videographer. He works in the fashion industry and in film. He sees art as vital to truth and community wellbeing. He is a powerfully concerned citizen with interests in doing what he can to support climate repair and every aspect of social justice.

Throughout our interaction, Paola and Guille collaborated on the answers to questions, diving into the most challenging issues facing Chile's vastly varied ecologies and acknowledging the inescapable interdependence of social ecology with the wellbeing of nature.

You can learn more about the issues Paola and Guille describe at the links below. As they said in our time together, we are all connected by air, water, land. The solutions may only be global. It is vital for us to learn of the profound interactions of social and environmental justice as illustrated in Chile and so many other countries around the world.

2021 Constitutional Election 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Chilean_Constitutional_Convention_election 

Climate change data

https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/chile 

Coup 1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat 

Environmental injustice threats in Chile

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/05/experto-de-las-naciones-unidas-advierte-que-chile-enfrenta-una-tormenta-de

MUSIC ~

This episode includes music by Gary Ferguson and these fine artists.

--Ahmad Mousavipour 24575281 - Historia de un Amor

from Pixabay

--Sergei Chetvertnykh  - Bossa In My Heart

from Pixabay

 --William_King - Latin Summer

from Pixabay