Surviving Progress (2011)
1h 26m
Running Time
November 4, 2011Release Date
Surviving Progress (2011)
1h 26m
Running Time
November 4, 2011Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Stephen Hawking
Himself
David Suzuki
Himself
Martin Scorsese
Executive Producer
Marina Silva
Self - Former Minister of the Environment, Brazil
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Executive Producer
Colin Beavan
Self - Engineer & Author
Mark Achbar
Executive Producer
Jane Goodall
Self - Primatologist
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Wiki.
Surviving Progress is a 2011 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, loosely based on A Short History of Progress, a book and a 2004 Massey Lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse. The film was produced by Daniel Louis, Denise Robert, and Gerry Flahive.