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Surviving Progress
Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress

7.3/10

1hr 26mins

Country:CA, US

2011

Documentary
Spoken Languages: English

Overview:

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.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

Big Picture Media Corporation, ONF | NFB

Genre

Documentary

Runtime

1hr 26mins

Rating

7.3/10

Release Date

2011-11-04

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