Surviving Progress
“Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”
2011•1h 26m•7.4•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Mathieu Roy
Writer
Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks
Revenue
$0M
Languages
English
Studio
Big Picture Media Corporation
Cast
Stephen Hawking
Self
David Suzuki
Self
Jane Goodall
Self
Production
Company
Big Picture Media Corporation
Company
ONF | NFB
Producer
Denise Robert
Producer
Daniel Louis
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