Surviving Progress (2013)

Surviving Progress full movie is released on Mar 23, 2013. Watch Surviving Progress online - the English Documentary movie from Canada , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $53,953. Surviving Progress is directed by Mathieu Roy,Harold Crooks and created by Harold Crooks with Ronald Wright and Mark Levine. Surviving Progress is available online on Kanopy and OVID.

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.