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na of singularities From the fourth transformation is that it added an additional meaning to the concept of revolution: in addition to a political, economic and social change, here is a change of ethics. As in any transforming process, there is uncertainty, contradictions and setbacks, because the old does not end and the new does not end up born; The new building is built with the stones of the ancient and the country is still inhabited, basically, by the same people who lived in the order – or in the disorder – previous. Regime change does not mean changing one population for another, but organizing it in a different social pact and with a different purpose. With the collaboration of the bulk of the old political class or despite it, with marked differences of rhythm between states and regions, the nation project advances. At the four dimensions of the change indicated by the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, that of Claudia Sheinbaum has added a fifth: the affective. An example is the construction of a national care system, articulating axis of public policies to guarantee the full exercise of the human rights of childhoods, adolescents, women, older people and with disabilities.
The country’s very viability requires a sixth transformative dimension: a technological revolution is needed that allows Mexico to guarantee its development – organized to well -being, not to give pleasure to the worships of GDP figures – in economic and climatic conditions of growing adversity. For example: the energy transition and one of its greatest emblems, electromobility, require a multiplication of clean energy generation capacities, and for this it is not enough with a quantitative accumulation of photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, mareomotor or green hydrogen resources; It is also necessary to innovate to increase the capacities of the already known systems.
The national territory suffers from a growing dehydration, and this first affects the performance of the field, but also limits the industry, services, the supply of population centers and hydroelectric generation capacity. Undoubtedly, it is possible to optimize all the use of water, reforest to attract rains, recycle and correct leaks, but with all these mitigation measures, but others, it will not rain in Chihuahua and in Sonora or the frequency and severity of forest fires will be reduced. It is necessary, consequently, to produce fresh water in large volumes through desalination and pump it from the coasts to the interior of the national territory, for which it is essential because with this a serious environmental affectation would be caused.
It must be, therefore, what to do with vast amounts of sodium chloride; Perhaps, develop systems that allow separating the salt molecule in its two components – click and sodium – or in Dicloro – employed in the manufacture of PVC – and in sodium hydroxide, better known as caustic soda. The additional stocks of these compounds can be intended for new industries, for example, the manufacture of sodium ion batteries, which have an energy density less than those of lithium, but their cost of production and their environmental impact are also lower.
Another problem whose solution leads to technological research is that of mining. The country and the world require huge amounts of minerals, but their extraction should not be carried out with predatory methods such as open -pit mining. It is enough to go around the mining regions of Zacatecas and other entities to verify the catastrophic destruction caused by that method. This means that every kilo of metal from these farms has a hidden cost that is loaded with the generations to come.
These challenges force, among other things, to redouble the research of materials and the generation of patents and the design of new industrial processes. The 4T must also be an evolution of technologies and also, of course, of consumption patterns. And at this point it is necessary to emphasize that the United States cannot be a model or ideal for aspiration because, as has been pointed out on many occasions, if all the people of the world consumed according to the US pattern, the planet would become uninhabitable in a matter of months.
