Surviving Progress
Synopsis
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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Québec / French
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Festival History
- Göteborg Film Festival 2012 generic
- Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2012 generic
- Toronto International Film Festival 2011 generic
- Vancouver International Film Festival 2011 generic
Titles
| Original title | Surviving Progress | English |
| Alternate title | Survivre au progrès | |
| Alternate title | A Short History of Progress |
Versions & editions
| Original version (English) |
Full credits
| Director | Harold Crooks, Mathieu Roy |
| Screenplay | Harold Crooks, Mathieu Roy |
| Producer | Mark Achbar, Betsy Carson, Daniel Louis, Denise Robert |
| Executive producer | Martin Scorsese |
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
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Source: Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec (CC0-1.0)
