{"id":3713,"date":"2006-09-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-02T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:17:38","slug":"oxigenarse-o-hibernar","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/oxigenarse-o-hibernar\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Oxigenarse o Hibernar<!--:--><!--:en-->Oxygenate or Hibernate<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nA fines de agosto, desde los cerros cubiertos de nieve mir\u00e9 hacia Santiago, y \u00a1\u00a1no se ve\u00eda la ciudad!! Santiago hab\u00eda desaparecido bajo una densa nube de smog y me enfrent\u00e9 con la posibilidad de entrar manejando hacia esa nube para volver a casa. <\/p>\n<p>Damas y Caballeros, una nueva Advertencia del Gobierno:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"#42426F\">\u201cRespirar en Santiago es malo para la salud y puede causar enfermedades pulmonares graves. Le recomendamos que respire ox\u00edgeno puro  por lo menos durante 45 minutos al d\u00eda, para neutralizar las toxinas. Consulte a su agente de viajes sobre lugares alternativos para respirar aire de buena calidad\u201d.<\/font><\/b>  <\/p>\n<p>Algunos me acusar\u00e1n de una exageraci\u00f3n vergonzosa pero acept\u00e9moslo (o respir\u00e9moslo)- Santiago apesta durante los meses m\u00e1s fr\u00edos del a\u00f1o, \u00a1cuando el aire es m\u00e1s pesado! Y \u00bfQu\u00e9 se ha hecho durante los \u00faltimos 20 a\u00f1os para cambiar la situaci\u00f3n? Bueno, hemos construido m\u00e1s calles y comprado much\u00edsimos m\u00e1s autos. <\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, aunque parezca incre\u00edble, todav\u00eda tenemos veh\u00edculos no catal\u00edticos que expelen humo negro mientras se desplazan durante los seis d\u00edas de la semana que no tienen restricci\u00f3n. Somos tan ingenuos, que cada d\u00eda de la semana publicamos dos d\u00edgitos- un 5 y un 8, por ejemplo- lo que significa que los veh\u00edculos no catal\u00edticos con patentes terminadas en 5 y 8 no podr\u00e1n circular. Algunos d\u00edas, cuando la calidad del aire es realmente espantosa, se a\u00f1aden m\u00e1s d\u00edgitos, e incluso, en una crisis total, los veh\u00edculos con convertidor catal\u00edtico tienen restricci\u00f3n. Pero, \u00bfafrontamos  el problema? \u00a1No!<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s, est\u00e1n las part\u00edculas de polvo que flotan en el aire y que se levantan desde las calles no pavimentadas del Gran Santiago, y que se mezclan con el humo negro de los veh\u00edculos sucios. \u00bfPavimenten m\u00e1s calles y se  reducir\u00e1n las part\u00edculas en el aire? \u00a1Ah! Pero eso costar\u00eda demasiado dinero y, ni siquiera los extremadamente altos precios del cobre nos lo permitir\u00edan. <\/p>\n<p>Sabemos que Santiago, rodeada de cerros y monta\u00f1as, funciona como un taz\u00f3n que atrapa el aire contaminado cuando est\u00e1 pesado y no hay corrientes c\u00e1lidas, o viento o lluvia que se lo lleve. Pero, \u00bfllev\u00e1rselo d\u00f3nde? si la contaminaci\u00f3n sale de Santiago con el viento, el agua lluvia o junto con las corrientes de aire, igual se posa en alg\u00fan otro lugar. <\/p>\n<p>Seamos realistas; todos sabemos que el calentamiento global es algo verdadero, y una gran amenaza para el planeta en que vivimos. Tambi\u00e9n sabemos que justo encima del sur de Chile hay un agujero en la capa de ozono. <\/p>\n<p>Promovemos buenos negocios y ofrecemos a Chile como un buen lugar para invertir, y a Santiago como una gran \u201cplataforma\u201d para operar dentro de Am\u00e9rica Latina. Entonces, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 no tenemos buen juicio para hacer frente, de una vez por todas, a un problema que va tan en contra de la imagen de Santiago, y de Chile?  <\/p>\n<p>No ser\u00e1 la hora de que digamos \u201cya basta, tengamos aire limpio\u201d- y para lograrlo invertiremos lo que sea necesario, para que nuestros hijos y nietos vivan vidas largas y sanas y no mueran de enfermedades pulmonares.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPara qu\u00e9 tener una de las leyes m\u00e1s estrictas en el mundo sobre el consumo y la venta de tabaco si no podemos  afrontar este tema, que es a\u00fan m\u00e1s importante? Fumar o no fumar es, en general, una decisi\u00f3n personal pero respirar aire limpio es una necesidad b\u00e1sica y fundamental para vivir- \u00a1durante toda la vida!<\/p>\n<p>Disculpen si soy muy dram\u00e1tico, pero \u00a1hasta Santiago Eneldo debe respirar para re\u00edrse!<br \/>\nY sigo, contaminado, pesimista y pol\u00edticamente incorrecto. <\/p>\n<p>Santiago Eneldo<br \/>\n(Comentarios, quejas y  convertidores catal\u00edticos a santiagoeneldo@yahoo.com)<!--:--><!--:en--><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nIn late August, I looked down on Santiago from the snow-covered hills to the south and I couldn\u2019t see the city!! Santiago had disappeared under a cloud of dense smog and I was faced with the prospect of driving into that cloud as I returned home.  <\/p>\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, a new Government Warning:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"#42426F\">\u201cBreathing in Santiago is bad for your health and can cause serious lung disease. We recommend you spend at least 45 minutes a day breathing pure oxygen to neutralize the toxins. Consult your travel agent on alternative locations for breathing good quality air.\u201d<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some will accuse me of shameful exaggeration but let\u2019s face it (or sniff it) &#8211; Santiago really stinks during the cooler months of the year when the air is heavier!! And what has been done to alter the situation during the past 20 years? Well, we have built more roads and bought many more cars.<\/p>\n<p>However, we still, unbelievably, have non-catalytic vehicles belching black fumes as they drive around on the six days a week they are unrestricted. We are so na\u00efve that every weekday we publish two digits &#8211; a 5 and an 8, for example &#8211; which means that non-catalytic vehicles with license plates ending in a 5 or an 8 cannot circulate. Some days when the official view of the air quality is truly dreadful, more digits are added and even, in a full crisis, vehicles with catalytic converters are restricted. But do we deal with the problem? No!<\/p>\n<p>Then, there are the particles of dust floating in the air and rising from the unpaved roads of Greater Santiago, which mix and percolate with the black fumes from dirty vehicles. Pave more roads and reduce the dust particles in the air? Ah! But that takes money and even hysterically high copper prices alone will not allow us to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded as it is by hills and mountains, we know Santiago acts like a bowl trapping the contaminated air when it is heavy and there are no warm currents, wind or rain to carry it away. But carry it away to where? If the contamination leaves Santiago on the wind, in rain water or upon air currents, it still lands somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it; we all know that global warming is real and a mighty danger to the planet on which we live. We also know there is a hole in the ozone layer high above southern Chile.  <\/p>\n<p>We promote sound business practices and offer Chile as a good place to invest and Santiago as a great \u201cplatform\u201d for operating within Latin America.  So, why do we not have the good sense to deal, once and for all, with an issue that works so strongly against the image of Santiago and Chile?  <\/p>\n<p>So, is it not time we said \u201cenough is enough, we will have clean air\u201d &#8211; and to achieve this we will invest what is needed so that our children and grandchildren live long and healthy lives and do not die from lung disease.  <\/p>\n<p>Why pass one of the most stringent laws in the world on smoking and the sale of tobacco if we cannot deal with the bigger issue? To smoke or not to smoke is, generally, an individual choice but to breathe clean air is a basic, fundamental requirement for life &#8211; all life!<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be so dramatic, but even Santiago Eneldo must breathe to laugh!<br \/>\nI remain, polluted, pessimistic and politically incorrect,<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Eneldo<br \/>\n(Comments, complaints and catalytic converters to santiagoeneldo@yahoo.com)<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es-->A fines de agosto, desde los cerros cubiertos de nieve mir\u00e9 hacia Santiago, y \u00a1\u00a1no se ve\u00eda la ciudad!! Santiago hab\u00eda desaparecido bajo una densa nube de smog y me enfrent\u00e9 con la posibilidad de entrar manejando hacia esa nube para volver a casa.<!--:--><!--:en-->In late August, I looked down on Santiago from the snow-covered hills to the south and I couldn\u2019t see the city!! 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