Surviving.Progress.2011.DVDRip.XviD-WiDE

Release: Surviving.Progress.2011.DVDRip.XviD-WiDE
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Title: Surviving Progress (2011)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Mathieu Roy / Harold Crooks
Cast: Stephen Hawking / Jane Goodall / David Suzuki / Margaret Atwood / Colin Beavan / Simon Johnson / Vaclav Smil / Michael Hudson / Raquel Taitson-Queiroz / Ronald Wright / Kambale Musavuli / Gary Marcus / Robert Wright / Ming Chen / Marina Silva
Rating: 7.1/10
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462014/

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.