The formation of ecological awareness in academics: a story about cenotes in Yucatan, Mexico

Abstract

At the University we have to encourage young people in the expansion of consciousness, which is recognized in the language of nature, the development of sensitivity in the sounds of the wind, the sea, the jungles and the forests. This expansive consciousness faces the values ​​of energy, expansion, control and capital accumulation, with its double reference: war, sacrifice, death and hopelessness. These values ​​describe the behavior of Mayan societies in the eclipse of their splendor. In recent times, we have built epistemological rationality about phenomena and organized the results of scientific research in oral and written discourses, however, the threat of climate change, environmental crisis and water pollution, as in the cenote, is no longer a custom affluent to the gods and their plans, while it is a meaningless practice every day, it becomes the unconscious joy that others suffer, of those who are still part of the stones and the forests, the seas and the infinite.