The World Needs a Bail-Out

“We face the greatest challenge to the world economy in modern times” — that’s not a sentence from the Extinction Rebellion Handbook. It was the opening line of the G20 leaders’ declaration at the London Summit in April 2009. Only ten years ago, the world slid into the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Multi-billion-dollar economic stimulus packages were cobbled together as a response.