The Great Recession

The severe global economic downturn that began in December 2007 (in the US) following the 2007-2008 financial crisis, lasting through 2009 and having prolonged social, cultural, and economic effects. Claims cite it as causing shifts in carbon emissions, cultural/television output, and economics discourse.

Claims that use this term

• The Great Recession, not natural gas, caused recent US carbon emission declines
• The Great Recession failed to produce a sixties-style counterculture
• The Great Recession pushed television toward cheap unscripted reality formats.
• The Great Recession triggered a redoubling of deliberate ignorance production in economics