Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress (2011)

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-11-04
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 34 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 26min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Big Picture Media Corporation
  • Production Country: Canada
  • Directors: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks.
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Summary

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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  • Stephen Hawking

    as Self
  • David Suzuki

    as Self
  • Jane Goodall

    as Self
Directing Mathieu Roy Director
Directing Harold Crooks Director
Writing Mathieu Roy Writer
Writing Harold Crooks Writer
Production Emma Tillinger Koskoff Executive Producer
Production Mark Achbar Executive Producer
Production Denise Robert Producer
Production Martin Scorsese Executive Producer
Crew Mario Janelle Cinematography
Editing Louis-Martin Paradis Editor
Production Daniel Louis Producer
Production Betsy Carson Executive Producer
Production François Girard Associate Producer

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