Surviving Progress (2011)
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.
Directors: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks.
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Stephen Hawking as Self |
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David Suzuki as Self |
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Jane Goodall as Self |
| Directing | Mathieu Roy | Director |
| Directing | Harold Crooks | Director |
| Writing | Mathieu Roy | Writer |
| Writing | Harold Crooks | Writer |
| Production | Mark Achbar | Executive Producer |
| Production | Betsy Carson | Executive Producer |
| Production | François Girard | Associate Producer |
| Production | Daniel Louis | Producer |
| Production | Denise Robert | Producer |
| Production | Martin Scorsese | Executive Producer |
| Production | Emma Tillinger Koskoff | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Mario Janelle | Cinematography |
| Editing | Louis-Martin Paradis | Editor |
