Today, global ecological prescriptions are called for in order to make humanity more sustainable. But, thus far, the prescriptions that the prevalent ‘knowledge’ of nature and its crisis demand, have been complicit with and supportive of the growth of neoliberal systems of governance and depoliticized instruments of power. The prevalent knowledge has produced the concept of nature as finite, vulnerable, as a single, confined global entity, and in need of careful management. The paper builds on Michel Foucault’s understanding of power and governing of populations, and aims to show the political nature of the knowledge of ‘environment’ and politicizes the role of international knowledge institutions such as the IPCC. The intention of the paper is to show the need for and outline an alternative view on the concept of nature, human-nature interrelation and natural resources that would hold a more preferable potential.
