Surviving Progress
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
2011-11-04 | 86 minutes
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.
Cast
Recommendations
-
The Barbarian Invasions
-
Expedition Happiness
-
Eternal Spring
-
PROGRESS: Orlando
-
Spy
-
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
-
Naruto x UT
-
Storks
-
Wonder Woman
-
Allegiant
-
Scary Movie 2
-
RRRrrrr!!!
-
A Bad Moms Christmas
-
John Wick: Chapter 2
-
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
-
The House
-
Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
-
Inside Out
-
Yesterday
-
Spirited Away
Similar Movies
-
Time to Change
-
Plastic China
-
Touching the Void
-
We Feed the World
-
Koyaanisqatsi
-
The Corporation
-
Saving Warru
-
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
-
Is the Crown at war with us?
-
From the Kill Pen
-
The Man Who Wanted to Change the World
-
Waiting for the Sun
-
The Bubble
-
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
-
Wagon21
-
Finding the Money
-
Sacred Cod: The Fight for a New England Tradition
-
Cracking the Shakespeare Code
-
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival
-
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West