Surviving Progress

2011

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 38 reviews
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IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 1980 2K

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Plot 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.

Director

Mathieu Roy Photo
Mathieu Roy

Top cast

Jane Goodall Photo
Jane Goodall as Self - Primatologist
Stephen Hawking Photo
Stephen Hawking as Self - Theoretical Physicist
Margaret Atwood Photo
Margaret Atwood as Self - Author, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Simon Johnson Photo
Simon Johnson as Self - Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
480p.DVD
765.78 MB
624*352
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 4

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