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Surviving.Progress.PDTV.x264-W4F
RELEASE iNFO
Release Date 2012.09.18
Genre Documentary
EPiSODE iNFO
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as
awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running
the 21st century's software our know-how on the ancient hardware
of our primate brain which hasn't been upgraded in 50,000 years.
With rich imagery and immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy
and Harold Crooks launch us on journey to contemplate our evolution
from cave-dwellers to space explorers.
Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress
inspired this film, reveals how civilizations are repeatedly
destroyed by progress traps alluring technologies serve
immediate needs, but ransom the future. With intersecting stories
from a Chinese car-driving club, a Wall Street insider who exposes
an out-of-control, environmentally rapacious financial elite, and
eco-cops defending a scorched Amazon, the film lays stark evidence
before us. In the past, we could use up a region's resources and
move on. But if today's global civilization collapses from over-
consumption, that's it. We have no back-up planet.
Surviving Progress brings us thinkers who have probed our primate
past, our brains, and our societies. Some amplify Wright's urgent
warning, while others have faith that the very progress which has
put us in jeopardy is also the key to our salvation. Cosmologist
Stephen Hawking looks to homes on other planets. Biologist Craig
Venter, whose team decoded the human genome, designs synthetic
organisms he hopes will create artificial food and fuel for all.
Distinguished Professor of Environment Vaclav Smil counters that
five billion have- nots aspire to our affluent lifestyle and,
without limits on the energy and resource- consumption of the
haves , we face certain catastrophe. Others including
primatologist Jane Goodall, author Margaret Atwood, and activists
from the Congo, Canada, and USA place their hope in our ingenuity
and moral evolution.
Surviving Progress leaves us with a challenge: To prove that making
apes smarter was not an evolutionary dead-end.
http://survivingprogress.com/
Alright doco, enjoy. DVD out next month.
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