Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Stephen Hawking

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

David Suzuki

Himself

Age : 89 | Popularity : 16%

Jane Goodall

Herself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Mathieu Roy Harold Crooks
Writing	Writer	Mathieu Roy Harold Crooks
Production	Executive Producer	Mark Achbar Betsy Carson Martin Scorsese Emma Tillinger Koskoff
	Associate Producer	François Girard
	Producer	Daniel Louis Denise Robert
Crew	Cinematography	Mario Janelle
Editing	Editor	Louis-Martin Paradis
Department	Role	Name

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