ABSTRACT
The discourse of Industrial Fatalism postulated that the management of self-generated global environmental risks created new markets for economic growth, advantages for Swedish corporations in international competition and a need to revise international rules. It permeated by the belief that it was possible to mitigate climate change through international negotiations and agreements on CO2 emission caps. In Sweden, several editorials, which warned of alarmism and prophecies of doom, and instead confessed to Industrial Fatalism, used the horrors of climate change to legitimize new investment in nuclear power despite the Swedish parliament's decision to phase out this technology. Hajer states that the dominating discourse of ecological modernization could be performed and interpreted both as institutional learning and a technocratic project. Industrial Fatalism is an example of the technocratic project, especially when new nuclear plants are proposed, planned and subsidized. long-standing arguments for nuclear power were reutilized to coincide with the 'nuclear renaissance', as it was universally nicknamed by its proponents.
