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 ou... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea[A] remarkably cogent, albeit remarkably alarming, film. |
| Seattle TimesTom Keogh[A] truly disturbing documentary, which pretty much argues that human beings are hard-wired to self-destruct. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesMathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, adapting a book by Ronald Wright, argue so persuasively that the human race is spinning out of control. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittUnlike many current documentaries, it offers a fresh take on familiar issues. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)Unlike many current documentaries, it offers a fresh take on familiar issues. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaFood for thought presented in a smart, admirably unsentimentalized and largely unmanipulative manner. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMathieu Roy and Harold Crooks's powerful but pessimistic documentary look at the corner we humans seem to be painting ourselves into, economically, ecologically and otherwise. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectVery topical indeed, insofar as it diagnoses the threat to the planet posed by predatory financial corporations in its insatiable desire to turn rainforests into capital. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessPersuasively argued in places, the film never really gets beyond the surface. That, however, may also be the point. |
| CraveOnlineWitney SeiboldBut this is not a film interested in partisan finger-wagging, nor is it looking to place blame directly on one specific group or another (despite some pretty heavy glances toward [some] politicians). No. "Surviving Progress" is more philosophical. |
