🦠 Enthusiasm needs coordination, too

Do complex global problems need coordinated solutions? The historical record suggests they do.

The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, as well as the recent pandemics, such as SARS and H1N1, all seem to have been attenuated because of coordinated multilateral action. Take, for example the response to SARS which

demonstrated some of the positive features of a globalized society: the advantages that rapid electronic communications and new information technologies bring in responding to emergencies, and the willingness of the international community to form a united front against a shared threat. (my emphasis)

Or the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-9 which brought large-scale coordinated action, spearheaded by the G20 which communicated that

national commitments to restore growth resulted in the largest and most coordinated fiscal and monetary stimulus ever undertaken. We [, the G20,] acted together to increase dramatically the resources necessary to stop the crisis from spreadin…