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Mayan Prophecy: Shift in Consciousness

“Imagine every nation with a
green economy that operates to

eradicate global poverty.”

• Imagine that a nation’s well-being and
standard of living is measured not by
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) alone, but
supplemented with indicators that take into
account the value of a country’s environ-

By Hana Truscott, MAK16 mental goods and services, human well-
being and quality of life; indicators such as
Well folks, it’s the end of the world as we know carbon emissions, renewable energy, for-
it. est and water stress, waste collection, re-
cycling and reuse rates, literacy rate, lev-
And according to Mayan elders, like Nobel els of harmful chemicals in drinking water,
Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum of the number of people hospitalized due to air
Quiche Mayan branch in Guatemala, to under- pollution, and access to modern energy,
stand the Mayan prophecy of this past Decem- water and sanitation.
ber 21 is to understand the Mayan worldview,
st
in which time is cyclical not linear and life is • Imagine a future in which sustainability
continual – it has no end. In the Mayan con- goes hand-in-hand with gender equality
text, this “end of the world as we know it” is a and empowered youth.
shift in consciousness. • Imagine a world in which coal-consuming

I see the dynamics of this new consciousness China adopts a general policy of Ecological
emerging. Civilization, which places ecological goals
for the country at the same level of prior-
• Imagine every nation with a green (energy- ity as goals for economic, political, cultural
efficient, low-carbon) economy that oper- and social development (That JUST hap-
ates to eradicate global poverty. pened. Congress adopted it at the end of
2012).

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