Neoliberals deploy identical denialist response templates to crises and climate change.

Evidence

But, of course, when it looks to all the world like the global economy is collapsing, the public wants action, and wants it now, not passive acquiescence. Fools rush in, say the neoliberals, and therefore a full-spectrum response is needed to counter the palliatives of their opponents. And, with benefit of hindsight, that is precisely what happened in the five years following the crash. Conveniently, the spectrum of policies can be arrayed more or less in parallel with the spectrum of responses to global warming outlined above, because the rough structure of short-, middle-, and long-term responses are essentially the same. Indeed, pointing out the similarities suggests that the neoliberal political project has by now attained a kind of efficient stability and coherence, rolling out many of the same time-tested responses in widely varying contexts. In the case of the global economic crisis, they comprise denialism, market-based rescue of banks, and financial innovation. This full-spectrum neoliberal response can serve to organize and clarify many of the ideas and incidents related in previous chapters into a single narrative that ultimately answers the question: How did the neoliberals emerge from the crisis stronger than when it began? — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 940

Categorization

• SEED: Could spawn an essay on how a single ideological template (denial, market-rescue, financial innovation) maps across economic crisis and climate collapse.
• XREF: connects to: Science denialism, carbon trading, and geoengineering together form a coordinated neoliberal climate strategy. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 926; Neoliberals weaponize performative ignorance to paralyze post-crisis response — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 40; Climate-denial think tanks manufactured the invented ‘climate lockdowns’ threat — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 486

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals weaponize performative ignorance to paralyze post-crisis response #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 40
• Climate-denial think tanks manufactured the invented ‘climate lockdowns’ threat #exemplifies (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 486