This paper takes up Michael Bonnett's challenge to re-examine the role of Metaphysics in Environmental and Sustainability Education (Bonnett, 2003). If, as Bonnett claims, metaphysics is at play in setting up the conditions for -- and the destiny of -- our relationship to places of environmental concern, then we would expect to see the traces of the metaphysical in the ways in which such places are spoken about. If this were the case, we would then have to re-conceptualise Environmental and Sustainability Education to take into account the metaphysics of our times and do so in ways that are sensitive to the plurality of ways in which to speak about such places. This paper focuses on 'Yasuní-ITT': a place of environmental concern in Ecuador. The geographical region of 'Yasuní-ITT' is the site of an ongoing controversy: a recent shift in government policy has overturned an earlier, radical plan for its conservation. Through document analysis of the many way in which 'Yasuní-ITT' has been spoken about, this paper demonstrates the degree to which this 'political' shift manifests the kind of metaphysics Bonnett has in mind. Thus, it serves as the basis for examining the future role of metaphysics in any Environmental and Sustainability Education that concerns itself with places.