Surviving Progress (2011)

What is Surviving Progress about?

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. Surviving Progress is a Documentary movie, released on 2011-11-04, runtime 86 minutes.

Is Surviving Progress worth watching?

TMDB users rate Surviving Progress 7.4 out of 10 from 50 ratings. Reception is mixed-to-positive.

Where can I watch Surviving Progress?

In the United States, Surviving Progress streams on OVID and can be rented from Amazon Video. The table on this page lists 9 more countries. Movie World also lists the official trailer, online streaming sources and links to external sources on this page.