MARCELO LAGOS advierte que SANTIAGO incuba TERREMOTO CATASTRÓFICO sin planificación adecuada

📺 Subscribe to El Desconcierto for more analysis on the environment, climate risk, and public policy in Chile 👍 Like this post if you think Chile needs to take disaster prevention seriously before the next catastrophe 💬 Comment: Do you think we live in a false sense of security when it comes to disasters? Marcelo Lagos, winner of the 2025 National Geography Prize, warns that Chile is facing a silent disaster risk crisis: while the country boasts about its seismic preparedness, forest fires are now killing more people than earthquakes, and legislation remains ineffective. A challenging conversation, from El Desconcierto's new environmental focus. 🔴 IN THIS INTERVIEW FROM EL DESCONCIERTO: → Why natural disasters don't exist: risk as a social and political construct → The San Ramón Fault and the unregulated risk zones of Santiago → Why forest fires are now more deadly than earthquakes in Chile → The forest fire prevention law has been stalled in Congress for over two years → Santiago's metropolitan regulatory plan was approved in the mid-nineties and doesn't reflect current dangers → Why Chaitén was rebuilt in the same area destroyed by the volcano in 2008 → SENAPRED's assessment: an institution with power, but without sufficient resources → Santiago is incubating a potentially catastrophic earthquake similar to the one in 1730, and no one is planning for it → The illusion of invulnerability: why resistant structures create a false sense of security → Why, without legal and political accountability, the The disaster curve will only continue to rise → The role of citizens in the face of a state that fails to guarantee safe territories 📊 CONTEXT Chile is one of the five countries with the largest amount of mining tailings in the world and has 50-60% of its population concentrated in the central metropolitan area. The 2015 earthquake in Illapel (magnitude 8.4) claimed approximately 15 lives. The Valparaíso fire of February 2014 left more than 130 dead. The urban planning and construction law that governs land use in Chile is based on a metropolitan regulatory plan approved in the mid-1990s. SENAPRED (formerly ONEMI) has been operating since 2021, but with insufficient human and financial resources, according to specialists. #MarceLagos #Disasters #Chile #ClimateEmergency #Earthquakes #ForestFires #Senapred #SanRamonFault #UrbanPlanning #DisasterRisk #ClimateChange #InGreenAndClear #TheDisconcert #Santiago #Environment #NationalGeographyAward