Review of: "From Necro-Politics to Necro-Ecology: framing the current climate environmental politics in the Americas" Marcos Nalli Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare. Simone Lucatello and Luiz Ricardo Fernandes Carril (2023) propose in their article an instigating reflection on political ecology in the Americas through the concept of necro-ecology. As they themselves define the concept, “necro-ecology can be therefore considered as the latest stage of the political ecology thinking in the region [this, in the Americas, but which, in fact, can be extended to the entire globe] and the necro politics dimensions, given not only the dramatic impacts of decision-making policies in the conservancy and nature preservation but also in the way current governments adopt decisions that can deeply affect in negative terms human beings and their relations with the ecosystems”. By presenting the concept of necro-ecology, the authors propose a new conceptual tool to think, in terms of Political Ecology [PE], the interactions between society, politics and government, and nature - a triad that is too simple, since each of these poles has its inherent singularities and contradictions. And that, in the name of a project, or even a utopia (we'll see why I say this below), democratic and of mutual respect for the plurality of voices, and to avoid becoming a technobureaucracy, it is important that Political Ecology recognizes the complexity inherent in that triad, since “the centrality of politics in society-nature relations can have significant theoretical and practical consequences, by allowing an articulation of perspectives of different 'social' issues, and the opening of a space for horizontal interpellations and plural statements” (Alimonda, 2005, p. 7). Although the triad mentioned above is not of exclusive interest for the analysis of PE, it is important to emphasize that it is not a difficulty, but an epistemological peculiarity, as it dialogues deeply with other disciplines of the social sciences (Perreaut, Bridge, McCarthy, 2015), but also of a political singularity, since it remains attentive and open to plural voices, not only academic, but also governmental, and from activism and communities politically involved in the interaction between society and nature (Alimonda, 2005; Leff, 2015; Batterbury, 2015), especially when we are faced with the problems of environmental degradation (Alimonda, 2015). I would like to propose some reflections from another discipline, that is, from philosophy. The intention is to contribute to the analytical-conceptual refinement implied in the concept of necro-ecology. And for that, I would like to revisit Foucault and Mbembe. Foucault and biopolitics Although Foucault is not the creator of the concept of biopolitics (Esposito, 2004), he is the one who presents for the first time and unequivocally the paradoxical contradiction that moves it [and that can be expressed in the form of a question Qeios, CC-BY 4.0 · Review, May 23, 2023 Qeios ID: 2WPUHA · https://doi.org/10.32388/2WPUHA 1/6