Surviving Progress

"Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up."Movie
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Surviving Progress
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StarringStephen HawkingDavid SuzukiJane Goodall
DirectorsHarold CrooksMathieu Roy
WritersMathieu Roy
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NR 1 hr 26 minDocumentary
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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.

Movie Details

On DVD & Blu-ray:September 25th, 2012 - Buy DVD
Movie Box Office Gross:$108,640 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Mark Achbar, Martin Scorsese, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Betsy Carson
Production Companies:Big Picture Media Corporation, ONF | NFB
Surviving Progress on the Web:Official Website, WikiData
based on novel or bookchinatechnologyenvironmentecologybusinesseconomicssouth americaeconomyenvironmental

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