ABSTRACT
Green Keynesianism was the most widespread of the discourses that opposed Industrial Fatalism in the global climate debate. It is characterized by deeper reflections on how side effects of industrial society should be handled. Where Industrial Fatalism urges that the problem could be managed through new large-scale technical solutions, market solutions and international agreements, Green Keynesianism raises questions about society's technical, political and economic foundations. Climate change is described in the Green Keynesian discourse not as an isolated management problem, but rather as one of many symptoms of a more serious institutional ecological crisis, which requires not only a change of the relationship between industrial civilization and nature, but also a change in the global distribution of resources and the dispersal of the ecological footprint created by the world's inhabitants. Social movements morphed from green activism to reformism right up until climate change put on the political agenda as a problem for human civilization.
