'As a scientist from South America and mainly from the south of Chile, I have lived in North Patagonia for my entire life and have done most of my research here in southern Patagonia.

I want people to understand that even though we are far from all these huge industrialized countries, we still get all the impacts from climate change.

These fragile ecosystems have been working in the same way for thousands and thousands of years before humans were even in America and are being disrupted. So, it's essential to recognize that we are all living in the same place, those global circumstances always have local effects at different scales.'

'Como científico de Sudamérica, y en particular del sur de Chile, he vivido en la Patagonia Norte durante toda mi vida y he realizado la mayor parte de mis investigaciones aquí, en la Patagonia Sur. Quiero que la gente entienda que aunque estemos lejos de todos estos enormes países industrializados, seguimos recibiendo todos los impactos del cambio climático. Estos frágiles ecosistemas han estado funcionando de la misma manera durante miles y miles de años antes de que los humanos estuvieran incluso en América y están siendo perturbados. Así que es esencial reconocer que todos vivimos en el mismo lugar, que las circunstancias globales siempre tienen efectos locales a diferentes escalas.'

Ocean scientist Maximiliano Javier Vergara Jara in December 2020 during the global pandemic, Estrecho de Magallanes, Chile

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