Surviving Progress | reviewed by: Scott McKay | October 19, 2012
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Surviving Progress is an interesting doc that covers a topic that would never come to mind and after vieweing perhaps there's a reason.
| genre | Documentary |
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| synopsis | 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. |
| lead actors | Stephen Hawking | David Suzuki | Jane Goodall |
| director | Mathieu Roy | Harold Crooks |