CinemaOSMovie · 2011 · 1h 26m

Surviving Progress

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

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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.

Directed byMathieu Roy, Harold Crooks

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 26m
Language
EN
Released
November 4, 2011
Revenue
$108,640
Studios
ONF | NFBBig Picture Media Corporation

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3 credited
Starring
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Self

David Suzuki

David Suzuki

Self

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Mathieu Roy
Harold Crooks
Written by
Mathieu Roy
Harold Crooks
Produced by
Daniel Louis
Denise Robert
Denise Robert

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