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Surviving Progress  (2011)
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

English 


Budget--
Revenue $108,640
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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
Stephen Hawking
Self
David Suzuki
David Suzuki
Self
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Self

Crews

Mathieu Roy
Director
Harold Crooks
Director
Mathieu Roy
Writer
Harold Crooks
Writer
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Executive Producer
Mark Achbar
Mark Achbar
Executive Producer
Denise Robert
Denise Robert
Producer
Martin Scorsese
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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