Surviving Progress (2012)
Surviving Progress is a book-based movie adapted from "A short history of progress" by Ronald Wright. This Documentary film is a loose adaptation, and its release date is April 6, 2012.
The Source Material
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Overview
Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water ― the very…
About The Movie
Description
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.
Details
- Title
- Surviving Progress
- Original Title
- Surviving Progress
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Documentary
- US Limited Theatrical
- April 6, 2012