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This Monday the eleventh version of the Future Congress 2022, an event that, under the motto “To learn to live together”, will feature presentations by more than 80 experts from 20 countries around the world to talk regarding science and the effects of humanity on the planet during the last century.
The President Sebastian Pinera led the inauguration of the meeting that takes place in the Metropolitan region, but that will also be extended to 10 other regions of the country.
With a speech, the current President began by thanking “all those who for 11 years have given life and projection to this Future Congress” and the members of the Commission Challenges of the Future of the Senate, which is chaired by Senator Guido Girardi (PPD), and integrated by Carolina Goic (DC), Francisco Chahuan (RN), Alfonso De Urresti (PS) y Juan Antonio Coloma (UDI).
“They have made a gigantic contribution, because they have been able to help us raise our eyes and try to see what lies beyond the horizon,” he declared.
The President took advantage of the instance to address, among other things, the creation of the Ministry of Sciences in 2018 -under his mandate-, the progress of the installation of fiber optics at the national level and highlighted that “Chile has a very favorable trilogy, because we have sun, we have copper and we have lithium, and that means -in this new world- that it has to take advantage of these elements for electromobility, for digital technologies and for many of the uses. It is a tremendous opportunity that Chile cannot miss.”
He also referred to the challenges that humanity has recently faced, such as “climate change, the pandemic, mass immigration, and many more.”
Regarding the above, he assured that during the last years a “clear relationship between technology and pandemic” has been evidenced, since “The pandemic accelerated and massified the application of many technologies”.
“In this, science was up to the challenge and was able to create vaccines in months,” he stressed. However, he stated that “Politics was not up to the challenge. We failed to coordinate, even the great powers clashed with each other”.
Along these lines, he referred to the current world governance, on which he pointed out that “it is not prepared, and it showed it, to face global problems that cannot be solved at the level of a country”. “There we have a tremendous challenge in improving governance,” he asserted.
To conclude his participation in the Future Congress, Piñera emphasized that “What is missing now is to put it all together in a political will to act before it is too late and we continue destroying our planet”.
The opening ceremony of the Congress, which will take place between Monday and January 21 in Chile, was also attended by the President-elect, Gabriel Boric, and the president of the Senate, Ximena Rincon (DC).