Surviving Progress
Humanity’s ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, “A Short History Of Progress” inspired “Surviving Progress”, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by “progress traps”—alluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the world’s resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isn’t an evolutionary dead-end.
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Big Picture Media Corporation, ONF | NFB
Director: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Cast: Stephen Hawking, David Suzuki, Jane Goodall
Crew: Mathieu Roy (Director), Harold Crooks (Director), Mathieu Roy (Writer), Harold Crooks (Writer), Mark Achbar (Executive Producer), Betsy Carson (Executive Producer)
Runtime: 86 minutes
Release: Nov 04, 2011
IMDb: 7.33/10 by 42 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 108
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