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Organized Labor and the Politics of Nuclear Energy: The Case of the Canadian Nuclear Workers Council

Over the past several years, there has been a gradual yet perceptible shift in the way that economic and political elites in the advanced capitalist world engage with environmental problems such as climate change. In the face of mounting public concern over global warming and an ever-solidifying scientific consensus as to its origins and dire future consequences, a stance of outright denial and inaction has become increasingly untenable. Consequently, mainstream government and business leaders have sought to take ownership of the issue, acknowledging its existence while containing and defusing its radical implications, and setting forth ways of responding to it that pose no challenge to prevailing economic interests and prerogatives. Indeed, as John Bellamy Foster (2002, 92) has argued, global warming has been increasingly framed in public debate not as a crisis requiring fundamental social transformation, but as a discrete problem amenable to ‘‘magic bullet’’ solutions that ‘‘hold out the possibility of environmental improvement with the least effect on the smooth working of the capitalist machine.’’ Far from posing a challenge to the dynamics of a corporate-dominated economy premised on endless economic expansion, such solutions promise to quicken the capitalist treadmill by creating opportunities for the profitable exploitation of new technologies, market exchange mechanisms, and a burgeoning range of ‘‘eco-friendly’’ goods and services.