Surviving Progress (2011)
Surviving Progress (2011)
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
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 Stephen Hawking As: Self
David Suzuki David Suzuki As: Self
Jane Goodall Jane Goodall As: Self
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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.


Tagline: Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
Certification: G

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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 04 November 2011

Country: CA

Runtime: 86m

Company Credits

Company: Big Picture Media Corporation, ONF | NFB

Revenue: $108,640

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Emma Tillinger Koskoff

Emma Tillinger Koskoff

Executive Producer

Mark Achbar

Mark Achbar

Executive Producer

Denise Robert

Denise Robert

Producer

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Executive Producer

Daniel Louis

Daniel Louis

Producer

Betsy Carson

Betsy Carson

Executive Producer

François Girard

François Girard

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Mario Janelle

Mario Janelle

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