What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts could become "eco-thoughts" capable of making us and others feel good? What if all animal and plant beings could also contribute to the eco-thinking of the world? What if this world, on which we walk, love and build was really capable of eco-thinking? Ecology concerns us from the inside, passes through us and literally shapes us: "what is inside is outside" in an invisible, indissoluble and indivisible continuum, in which the code of our destiny is forged. “This book offers eco-words and eco-thoughts. In the end, it seems to me that it wrote itself or that perhaps you, dear reader, wrote it with your thoughts and words. It offers us a journey, humble and adventurous, sometimes exhilarating or dramatic, through the meanders of our thoughts to observe the chasms into which we fall every day with the detached smile of those who know that it will happen again, but that after a while we will be able to get up and grab that small fissure in the folds of the representation which, at our nod, can eco-transform. With half-empty pockets, without recipes or any education, we will then take back all the knowledge that is already ours, while that imperceptible smile capable of returning us to the world will ripple around our eyes again

Tota, A.L. (2025). Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind. London : Routledge.

Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind

Anna Lisa Tota
2025-01-01

Abstract

What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life? What if those thoughts could become "eco-thoughts" capable of making us and others feel good? What if all animal and plant beings could also contribute to the eco-thinking of the world? What if this world, on which we walk, love and build was really capable of eco-thinking? Ecology concerns us from the inside, passes through us and literally shapes us: "what is inside is outside" in an invisible, indissoluble and indivisible continuum, in which the code of our destiny is forged. “This book offers eco-words and eco-thoughts. In the end, it seems to me that it wrote itself or that perhaps you, dear reader, wrote it with your thoughts and words. It offers us a journey, humble and adventurous, sometimes exhilarating or dramatic, through the meanders of our thoughts to observe the chasms into which we fall every day with the detached smile of those who know that it will happen again, but that after a while we will be able to get up and grab that small fissure in the folds of the representation which, at our nod, can eco-transform. With half-empty pockets, without recipes or any education, we will then take back all the knowledge that is already ours, while that imperceptible smile capable of returning us to the world will ripple around our eyes again
2025
Tota, A.L. (2025). Eco-Thoughts. Conversations with a Polluted Mind. London : Routledge.
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