Chile Writes a New Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

“The Constitution is the most important law in the country,” she tells a man selling mangoes. “We can learn a lot of things about climate change studying the salares, because they are already extreme,” she said. “You can find clues of the past and also clues of the future.”Dr. Dorador is vying to be the convention’s president. The world faces the same reckoning as it confronts climate change and biodiversity loss, amid widening social inequities: Does the search for climate fixes require re-examining humanity’s relationship to nature itself? “We have to face some very complex 21st century problems,” said Maisa Rojas, a climate scientist at the University of Chile.