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The Future is not a Coming Given, but a Rebirth Starting from the Present

𝐵𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑒: 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛 "𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑐" 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 "𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐" 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦

Today, current environmental literature is often paralyzed by the narrative of catastrophe. It focuses on data and statistics, describing disaster as a fate that will inevitably crash down upon us. With narrative catastrophism and scientific data, even when it seeks to raise awareness, it often remains anchored to a classic and utilitarian anthropocentrism: nature is protected only if its degradation directly threatens humans. From this perspective, if environmental upheaval did not represent an immediate danger to us, we would continue to manipulate and pollute at will, following a purely exploitative logic.
Starting from these premises, I think we schoud open a new perspective for a radical turn: "the ecosophical reflection."
Unlike the anthropocentric tradition, the ecosophical approach does not ask us to protect nature for humanity, but to recognize its intrinsic value. Here, the conception that places man at the center is overturned. We are no longer the masters of a world of resources, but part of a network where all natural entities hold the same ontological value.
This theoretical perspective finds its highest expressivity in the theopoietic mode, where theory becomes life and life theory. In the battle for a better planet, theory is not merely theory: it is the fusion of thought and life. Philosophy does not just explain the world; it creates it by unfolding poetic action and ethical commitment. In this way, the authors are called not only to represent that disastrous fate, but to poeticize it, restoring balances not for human interest, but for ontological justice.

Happy meditation to all

Thanks for this, Giuseppe. Are there books you could recommend, other than your own?