Surviving Progress (2011)

About Surviving Progress

Where can I watch Surviving Progress?

Surviving Progress is currently streaming in the United States on OVID.

Who stars in Surviving Progress?

Surviving Progress stars Stephen Hawking, David Suzuki, Jane Goodall.

Who directed Surviving Progress?

Surviving Progress was directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.

How long is Surviving Progress?

Surviving Progress has a runtime of 1h 26m.

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.