The final neoliberal fallback is geoengineering, which derives from the core neoliberal doctrine that entrepreneurs, unleashed to exploit acts of creative destruction, will eventually innovate market solutions to address dire economic problems. This is the whiz-bang futuristic science fiction side of neoliberalism, which appeals to male adolescents and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs almost as much as do the novels of Ayn Rand. Geoengineering is a portmanteau term covering a range of intentional large-scale manipulations of the earth's climate, often proposed to counteract existing man-made climate change, such as global warming. It proudly flaunts the neoliberal precept that if the economy screws up, just double down on the same sorts of things you have been doing already.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 931