[Reellife] "Surviving Progress" (Friday, Dec. 2 - Thurs. Dec. 8)

[Peter Prontzos]

   Surviving Progress

   86 minutes | Canada | 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.

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