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The Sacrifice Zone | Phenomenal World

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In September 2022, 62 percent of Chilean voters rejected the country’s proposed new constitution.1 The defeat took many by surprise—the demands to rewrite the existing charter had been loud and seemingly unanimous. For followers of Chile’s extractive industries, however, the results were less surprising. In fact, they reflected deep and long standing tensions at the heart of the country’s green energy transition. At the crux of these tensions is the mining industry. Chile is the largest producer of copper in the world, and the mining industry as a whole employed 289,284 people between July and September 2022. Although mine workers only account for 3.2 percent of the national workforce, jobs are highly concentrated in a few regions.2 Toxic, polluted, and exploitative, it has nevertheless provided employment and growth for surrounding communities.3 Chile’s miners know that non-renewable resources are unsustainable in the long run, but they also fear that plant closure and industry conver

The Sacrifice Zone - Phenomenal World In September 2022, 62 percent of Chilean voters rejected the country’s proposed new constitution. )www.servel.cl( ) " class="footnote" id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-list-1">1 Electoral resources for the 2022 plebiscite are available at the Servicio Electoral de Chile (SERVEL), ( )www.servel.cl( ) The defeat took many by surprise—the demands to rewrite the existing charter had been loud and seemingly unanimous. For followers of Chile’s extractive industries, however, the results were less surprising. In fact, they reflected deep and long standing tensions

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