
Surviving Progress (2011)
7.3|4 Nov, 2011|86 min
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
7.3|4 Nov, 2011|86 min
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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.
Language
Budget--
Revenue $108,640
English
Budget--
Revenue $108,640
Keywords
china
based on novel or book
technology
overpopulation
economy
business
economics
ecology
south america
environmental
environment
environmentalism
chimpanzee
deforestation
rainforest
economic crisis
environmental issue
population explosion
Casts

Stephen Hawking
Self

David Suzuki
Self

Jane Goodall
Self
Crews
Mathieu Roy
Director
Harold Crooks
Director
Mathieu Roy
Writer
Harold Crooks
Writer

Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Executive Producer

Mark Achbar
Executive Producer

Denise Robert
Producer

Martin Scorsese
Executive Producer
Mario Janelle
Cinematography
Louis-Martin Paradis
Editor
Daniel Louis
Producer
Betsy Carson
Executive Producer
François Girard
Associate Producer
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