Surviving Progress 12 years old

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

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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Surviving Progress Cast

Name	Character
Stephen Hawking He was 69, 76 years old when he died	as Himself
Jane Goodall She was 77, now 90 years old	as Herself
David Suzuki He was 75, now 88 years old	as Himself

Surviving Progress Crew

Name	Department
Daniel Louis as Producer. He was 58 (now 70) years old	Production
Denise Robert as Producer. She was 59 (now 72) years old	Production
Mark Achbar as Executive Producer. He was 56 (now 69) years old	Production
Mathieu Roy as Director. He was 28 (now 40) years old	Directing
Mathieu Roy as Writer. He was 28 (now 40) years old	Writing
Harold Crooks as Director. He was 58 (now 71) years old	Directing
Harold Crooks as Writer. He was 58 (now 71) years old	Writing