Surviving Progress

Humanitys ascent is often measured by the speed of progress But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards towards collapse Ronald Wright whose bestseller A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress shows how past civilizations were destroyed by progress trapsalluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs but ransom the future As pressure on the worlds resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations can our globallyentwined 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 progressasusual also poses a challenge to prove that making apes smarter isnt an evolutionary deadend