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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...
- DIRECTORS
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- Mathieu Roy
- Harold Crooks
- WRITERS
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- Harold Crooks
- Mathieu Roy
- Big Picture Media Corporation
- STUDIOS
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- Big Picture Media Corporation
- Cinémaginaire Inc.
- National Film Board Of Canada (NFB)
- WEBSITE
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- WWW.SURVIVINGPROGRESS.COM/
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Ronald Wright as Himself - Author, A Short History of Progress -
Mark Levine as Himself - Group Leader, China Energy Group -
Robert Wright as Himself - Author, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny -
Marina Silva as Herself - Former Minister of the Environment, Brazil -
Kambale Musavuli as Himself - Friends of the Congo -
Vaclav Smil as Himself - Population Scientist & Author, Global Catastrophies and Trends
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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.
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