Mathieu Roy
Director
1h 26m
Surviving Progress (2011)
Overview
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.74%
Harold Crooks
Director
Cast
Stephen Hawking
Self
David Suzuki
Self
Jane Goodall
Self
Stephen Hawking
Self
David Suzuki
Self
Jane Goodall
Self
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Release Date
November 4, 2011Original Language
EnglishBudget
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