Surviving Progress

Surviving Progress

2011
1h 26m
7.3

7.3/10

46 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary

"Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up."

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.

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Status: Released

Revenue: $108,640

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Big Picture Media Corporation ONF | NFB
Production Countries
Canada
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

china based on novel or book technology overpopulation economy business economics ecology south america environmental environment environmentalism chimpanzee deforestation rainforest economic crisis environmental issue population explosion

Quick Facts

Release Date November 4, 2011
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt1462014
Website Visit Site

Cast

Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking

Self

David Suzuki
David Suzuki

Self

Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall

Self

Key Crew

Harold Crooks
Director
Mathieu Roy
Director
Mathieu Roy
Writer
Harold Crooks
Writer
Mark Achbar
Executive Producer
Martin Scorsese
Executive Producer
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Executive Producer
Betsy Carson
Executive Producer